Commonwealth vision for Europe in the Developing World
Date: 17 Oct 2006
Speaker: Secretary-General Don McKinnon
Location: Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and my special thanks to Michael Emerson and to CEPS for hosting us today. I’m told that if you have something to say in Brussels then this is one of the very best places to say it. Your good reputation precedes you, and I’m delighted to be here.
I am here to talk about the EU and the Commonwealth – not simply ‘in themselves’, but as means towards an end. And that ‘end’ has special resonance today. You may or may not know that today is the International Day for the Eradication of World Poverty – as agreed in the UN General Assembly in December 1992. So every 17th October we address the subject of world poverty...
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