Great Britain is the most exemplary model of international cooperation in Europe, followed by Germany, Holland and Spain. Italy, instead, suffers from "inactivity" and a "deep crisis" in this area, which it can get out of only through a global reform of cooperation to development. This was revealed by a survey conducted on behalf of Vis (International Volunteering for Development a NGO associated with the Salesian friars) by Cespi (International Politics Study Centre) which was presented in Rome today, a survey that compares the organisational models of six European countries: Great Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Spain and Denmark. “It’s not just about raising more funds stated Antonio Raimondi, president of Vis but about reforming the wheels of cooperation and equipping them with their own political dignity, separated from any foreign political choice. It is about moving from the optional commitment of government measures to a veritable institutional player, partly by creating a Ministry for fighting poverty and for international solidarity”. The survey shows that Holland and Denmark are "the only countries, among those included in the survey, that fulfil the international commitment of allocating 0.7% of their gross domestic profit to aids to development by 2015", specified Marco Zupi, deputy director of Cespi.
