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Subido el 3 de julio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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Since its very start, the European Union has wanted to spread itsr peace and stability and to help developing countries raise their living standards Some people know that the European Union is the first donor of Humanitarian Aid in the world. Very few are aware, however, that the EU is also the largest donor of public external aid to developing countries. European external assistance is a central component of the EU approach to external relations. It enables to promote European common values throughout the developing world: Peace Processes, Human Rights, Good governance, Respect to the rule of Law, Gender Equality… The ambitious Reform of the external assistance management of the European Commission is an important step toward an improved coherence and better-proven results. Efficiency, value for money, is the key word of this reform. improvement of management systems, the new spirit of total accountability and transparency … all are just some elements of this huge overhaul of the external assistance management. It starts bearing fruits, even if full results, another key word, will be only visible in some years' time. This combat finds several fields to be fought on, fields that are now clearly focused: Health, Education, Food Security and Rural Development, Transport and Infrastructures, Institutional Building, Regional Integration and Linking Humanitarian Aid to Co- operation.

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Who kept this family alive? 00:00:00
Who gave this kid a future? 00:00:25
Who gave this mother hope that her child would live? 00:00:30
These people did. European citizens. 00:00:34
The European Union is the biggest donor of external assistance in the world. 00:00:38
Half of all global assistance comes from us. 00:00:42
Amounting to some 30 billion euro per year. 00:00:45
One third of them directly managed by the European Union. 00:00:48
Europe gives literally worldwide. 00:00:53
Here, here and here. 00:00:56
With assistance ranging from humanitarian aid to the poorest populations. 00:00:59
To reconstruction of post-conflict areas. 00:01:05
And the building of democracies and better governments. 00:01:10
Building an ever-expanding range of partnerships with third countries. 00:01:14
Why would European taxpayers want the EU to do all this with their money? 00:01:19
Is their money being well spent? 00:01:23
Nearly half the world's population lives on less than 2 euro a day. 00:01:25
The European Union and its member states support the international goals for poverty reduction. 00:01:29
In Africa we've spent some 10 billion euro per year on relieving poverty. 00:01:35
With instruments as diverse as improving trade opportunities, everything but arms, or ensuring there's clean water to drink. 00:01:40
We know we can't address all the challenges at once, so we've focused on a number of priority areas. 00:01:48
Sustainable rural development and food security. 00:01:54
To ensure there's not only food today, but a good prospect of food tomorrow. 00:01:58
Health and education are another two crucial issues for the future of these countries. 00:02:05
Transport. 00:02:10
Infrastructures. 00:02:13
Institutional building. 00:02:17
The European Union tries also to help all of these countries in achieving a higher degree of regional integration. 00:02:22
So as to improve their presence in international gatherings. 00:02:28
Since the Taliban fell in 2001, the European Union has been a major player in the reconstruction of the country. 00:02:35
Europe is not a military superpower, but it has a major role on the world stage through external assistance. 00:02:42
Helping these refugees to return home, ensuring there's work for them to earn a living wage, 00:02:49
giving them alternatives to poppy production, is not simply an act of humanity. 00:02:54
It has the explicit aim of stabilizing Afghanistan, so that it never again poses such a danger to the rest of the world. 00:02:59
While this may look like social work, it's actually a form of security policy. 00:03:07
Election observation missions like this one in Ecuador in 2002, 00:03:17
are just one of the ways the European Union uses external assistance as an instrument to promote the values we believe in abroad. 00:03:22
The operation here aims to support the democratic process and the rights of voters. 00:03:29
Human rights, good governance and the rule of law are the central themes of European Union external assistance across the globe. 00:03:34
Here in the Western Balkans, physical reconstruction, for example of homes damaged in Vukovar and in Mostar, 00:03:43
has gone hand in hand with the reconstruction of well-functioning governments. 00:03:49
The EU spent around 30 million euro in 2001 on building working institutions, 00:03:54
and particularly stronger police, customs and judicial authorities. 00:04:00
Assistance is not just charity, but a way of spreading the values we believe in, 00:04:05
to help others achieve the kind of stability we take for granted. 00:04:10
Europe's taxpayers have a right to demand that we spend their money efficiently, 00:04:15
and this commission has taken important steps to ensure that assistance is delivered faster and more coherently. 00:04:20
Efficiency isn't just about accountability to taxpayers though. 00:04:27
Under reforms brought in by this commission, this demining operation in a post-conflict area is managed locally rather than in Brussels. 00:04:32
That means it's being handled by people who can see what's going on and troubleshoot any problems that arise. 00:04:40
These children now back at school in the Middle East don't know it of course, 00:04:48
but the speed with which their school reopened is due in no small part to this commission's reforms in the way it operates its external assistance. 00:04:53
Reforms have matched human resources better to task in hand, which means a speedier, more efficient operation. 00:05:02
In 2002, we dispersed nearly half of the 280 million euro we earmarked for Afghanistan. 00:05:09
These persons are implementing a comprehensive rural development project that makes their general daily life conditions better. 00:05:18
Water supply, better farming techniques, use of solar energy. 00:05:25
The EU believes however that social conditions must be part and parcel of any coherent and sustainable development. 00:05:30
These women in Niger are much more the protagonists and managers of their future than any civil servant sitting in a European capital. 00:05:37
The reforms introduced by this commission are improving everyday life of people across the globe. 00:05:48
There is however much further to go and that is a new challenge for the enlarged Europe. 00:05:54
There is however much further to go and that is a new challenge for the enlarged Europe. 00:06:00
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