Eradicating poverty, combating inequalities and protecting human rights are among the key priorities that the European Union must defend in next year’s negotiations on the future sustainable development goals, the European Parliament confirmed in a resolution adopted this week during its plenary session in Strasbourg.
MEPs discussed and passed a report outlining EU priorities in the upcoming debates on the future global development framework set to replace Millennium Development Goals when they expire at the end of 2015.
"We cannot continue to do business-as-usual in the new framework,” Davor Ivo Stier, the Croatian center-right member of the European Parliament who penned the report, told Devex. “We need to address the real root causes of poverty instead of curing the symptoms.”
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Diederik Kramers is a freelance correspondent in Brussels covering EU and NATO affairs. A former spokesperson and communications officer for UNICEF and UNHCR, he previously worked as foreign desk and Eastern Europe editor for the Dutch press agency ANP and as editor-in-chief of the Dutch quarterly Ukraine Magazine.
