"The fact the EU is the world’s main donor of humanitarian aids and development hides a different reality. That is, that the other countries and international organisations donate too little": Louis Michel, commissioner in charge of this area, reinterprets from a different point of view the statistics that have been recently published by the OECD. Then, he goes back to humanitarian aids: "With the report presented today, the EU Commission asks first of all to the member sates to confirm the engagements taken in 2005", i.e. to invest in aids 0.56% of their GDP by 2010 and 0.70% by 2015. That’s why "each country must outline a schedule. A dozen of states have already done that, the others haven’t. In addition, such aids must become more effective, with the help of the recipient countries". Then, the EU plans a better "sharing of work. We must define together to what countries the aids of each member states are to be allocated and to what sector": hunger reduction, education, farming … "The purpose is not to let some poor countries orphaned and helpless, and not to neglect some sectors that are important for development". Finally, the EU would like to have "better control over the expenditure" and promote the economic development "of these countries, which is the best way to fight poverty".
