Traduction de «Pays déstructuré » (Français → Anglais) :

I will now focus on what I would call the third point: aid to destabilized countries.

On the other hand, the countries in which famine has spread are those in which the fall in agricultural prices has thrown peasant farmers into poverty, destabilising marketing networks, and has forced many of those living in rural areas, oppressed by poverty, towards ill-equipped suburbs or into emigrating.

The structural causes which have undermined the success of the Lomé Conventions are still present: the burden of debt which is strangling the budgets of the ACP countries and their potential to invest in sustainable development, the continued deterioration of trade terms to the detriment of the ACP countries, in the absence of an international system for trade regulation of primary products, a structural adjustments policy which imposes budgetary restrictions on ACP countries and, lastly, an inconsistent European policy which, like its development policy, not only subsidises agricultural production and exports its surplus to developing countries, thus destab ...[+++]ilising the local markets, but also authorises industrial fishing vessels to fish the territorial waters of the ACP countries, which adversely affects the local people’s means of subsistence and compromises the protection of biodiversity.

This is a revealing example of the harmful effects of free trade between two unequal parties and shows that opening the southern countries markets can only serve to dismantle and weaken their economies and nascent industries.

I think that by focussing on short term profits we are dismantling democratic countries, bona fide countries which made sure they could provide services to people and settle their land.