Brussels-Belgium - 18 January 2005---Prof. Jeffrey D. SACHS, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University; also Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015; during a press conference at the HQ of the EC---Photo: Horst Wagner/eup-images