7/30/2019 Resolution, Mandate to the EU to Provide Development Assistance

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Resolution adopted at the EPP Congress in Bucharest, 17th

to the 18th

October 2012

A mandate to the EU to provide long-term development assistance

to countries threatened with starvation

We, the EUROPEAN Senior Citizens Union, propose that the forthcoming Electoral Congress in Bucharest resolve

that:

The EU faces up to the greatest challenge of our times of overcoming the looming North/South conflict by

providing not just money but also the economic and industrial know-how to countries affected by hunger and

unemployment.

Calls on the EPP to further elaborate on these issues in one of its Working Groups.

Rationale:

In an address to his countrymen, US President John F. Kennedy stated in more or less as many words: We will

go to the Moon in this decade and we will use the best of our energies and skills and all the resources we have

to that end. Ten years later, the Americans were actually on the Moon. We, the ESCU, hope for such a stance in

Europe. Imagine the Council of Ministers, the Commission and the Parliament of the European Union sending

out a unanimous message today relating to starvation and the ever-increasing numbers of refugees from hunger

in the countries of the Northern Hemisphere: In ten years time, no-one need suffer from starvation anymore!

Such a fundamental political stance equates to the central message of the Bible the command to love and is

an integral part of all the major religions of the world.

Because overcoming famines is also an objective of environmental protection policy, we call on all those

responsible in politics, the economy and society in Europe to combine this call to action with an environmental

policy that is not just discussed but is also practised. Not to act here would constitute a contribution to the

North/South conflict of the worst kind.