Strasbourg, 20/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 16 February, the Parliament adopted a resolution on the new additional mechanisms for funding development aid, declaring itself in favour of an “international levy on airline tickets which would aim to fund the fight against HIV and other pandemics”, and without closing the door on other additions to public development aid (PDA). In the debate, Tokia Saïfi (PPE-DE, France) pointed out that “although the EU is the main donor, it must do more, better and quicker”, because “the Millennium development aims require extra funding”. Fiona Hall (ADLE, UK) and Karin Scheel (PSE, Austria) also believe that the Member States could do more to ensure that the level of public development aid reaches 0.7% before 2010. According to Caroline Lucas (Green, UK) this can be achieved by “taxes at world level” and in the view of Michel Rocard, the idea of a World Lottery should be reconsidered. The former French Prime Minister noted that this initiative, “which the Commission has not considered in its proposals”, “would nonetheless allow us, with four draws a year and a levy of 1% of receipts, to collect 500 million dollars a year”. Another mechanism which could reap huge benefits is the proposal from the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown for an international finance facility which could “collect up to a billion dollars a year”, said British Labour MEP Glenys Kinnock. In their resolution, MEPs welcomed the decision taken by France (which is holding a conference on this subject at the end of February: EUROPE 9133), and also the UK, Spain, Italy and Sweden, to allocate 4 billion dollars to the IFFim, the pilot project for the international finance facility for immunisation. Nevertheless, they call on the Member States to re-evaluate the “feasibility” of a World Lottery “to finance actions in the fight against hunger as proposed by the World Food Programme in the form of a food project”.