Development Cooperation Handbook/Interviews/Danièle Smadja

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Danièle Smadja
EU Ambassador to India
New Delhi India, 12th May 2010

What are the important areas of cooperation between India and the EU?[edit]

Areas of Cooperation between India and EU


What do you think are the factors which create poverty?[edit]

What are the Factors which Create Poverty?



Why should an EU citizen fund the education of the poor children in India?[edit]

I think that supporting the education of a child is a wonderful objective, a wonderful approach to defend human rights

I think that supporting the education of a child is a wonderful objective, a wonderful approach to defend human rights; because education is a fundamental right of every child.
The second element is that the money has been worth spending for in 2003 there were 25 million children out of school in India. Thanks to the program of the Government of India and the EU in 2009 there were only 8 million children out of school.

Opinion on Aid coming from an other Country and an other Culture

The third element is that when a child is educated, when a teenage is going to college and when out with a degree a student is getting a job; i don't think we should think in terms of competitors. We should think in terms of wealth, in terms of world economic growth. The more children are coming to the labor market with a degree, with skills... then you make the world economy run. Today there is so much interdependence between countries; it is important that there is economic growth in India and china for when our countries are lagging behind, and when they are in the middle of a crises it is then important that other countries are the locomotive of the economic growth. Whenever you give money to somebody you have less for you; but you may have less now... but it will bring you more tomorrow. And your child who is going to school in Europe, tomorrow might need the growth that an Indian child is going to produce. In terms of economic cooperation, today, we always have to look for win win situations.

What is your opinion on aid coming from an other country and an other culture?[edit]






EU commitment towards Global Partnership for Development[edit]

EU Commitment Towards Global Partnership for Development

The EU was very committed towards the MDGs when they were put together in the UN.

EU's Contribution Towards SSA

What we have in mind with this Global Partnership for Development is that our development assistance should always go hand-in-had and support the national strategies and policies of the country. We come with the projection of our values, the European values, but we don't come with our own model to impose; we come to support.

Why do we do it India? India has 400 million people under poverty, this represents a quarter of the entire population around the world. Europe cannot turn a blind eye to that.

Social integration is the resource[edit]

Social integration is the resource



Knowledge and Social Harmony as Resources