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Originally Posted by Britannist
Perhaps some EU country is getting benefits from trade with Nicaragua on the condition that it gets the EU to give Nicaragua 'aid' in return.
One thing's for sure, it won't be this country. The EU wouldn't give aid to a non-EU nation if the giving of that money helped the UK.
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These are the sorts of posts that just confuse me, the UK is a part of the EU, when the "EU" makes a decision it includes the UK and not much due to our size and importance (I'll get the voting records out again if you like) is done against the wishes of the UK government.
As for this issue I absolutely do not think abortion laws are suitable for the conditions on foreign aid. However I'm fully in favour of putting certain conditions on aid, we should not (and I'm not talking about the EU here, this goes for the UK, the US or anyone else) give aid to regimes that act immorally when we have the economic power to change their policies. This is why I don't support giving aid to Palestine whilst it's under the control of a government who doesn't recognise Israel. However abortion laws are not one of those areas in my opinion.