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| Non-governmental organizations demand compliance with the Lisbon-Treaty |
26.04.2010 |
| Development policy must remain independent |
Bonn, April 26, 2010: Europe’s development policy must remain an independent political area and should not be dominated by external or security-political interests. This is demanded by the association of development policy of the Non-governmental Organizations (VENRO) towards the foreign secretaries that discuss the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Luxemburg today.
”The Lisbon-Treaty demands that evolutionary development strategies should be focused on fighting poverty. They should not be oriented on short-term external interests“, says Ulrich Post, chairman of the VENRO. “If this principle is not being complied with, it is clearly a breach of agreements.”
Moreover, VENRO claims that the political governance and the management of strategies concerning development policy should lie in one hand. Post explains: “The commissioner of development policy must be fitted with the required competences”.
The political guidelines of the EEAS must explicitly refer to the order of coherence.
The Lisbon-Treaty also calls other political areas to behave coherent to evolutionary political goals. “This is a big chance for a more efficient development policy, but only if everyone abides to it”, says Post.
Lack of understanding is the association’s answer to the “politics of closed doors” in developing the EEAS. The public had been hardly informed about the current status of negotiations. This also does not comply with the spirit of the Lisbon-Treaty. It demands more transparency and participation of the civil society.
The Lisbon-Treaty, which took effect on December 1, 2009, provides the EEAS to the European Union, a diplomatic service with the purpose of developing a “proper” European foreign policy.
VENRO e.V.
Press Office
Kirsten Prestin
Kaiserstr. 201
53113 Bonn
E-Mail: k.prestin@venro.org
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