– (NL) Mr Claeys, would you agree with me that the foreign in
terests of the rich Western European countries and of the United States have led to dictators being kept in power and, consequently, to development aid often failing to work, because that aid has ended up in the wrong pockets and because we have never done anything to tackle that, in the interests of maintaining a ‘stability’ which has not, in fact, been worth the name, as has been demonstrated in North Africa and the Middle East? Standing up for democracy means standing up for democrats in developing
countries and
...[+++]letting dictators fall, whilst keeping development aid flowing.