Austria
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
With €53.8 billion (0.43% of its GDP), the European Union’s official development aid (ODA) reached a record level in 2010, up by €4.5 billion on 2009. “The EU remains incontestably the world’s leading donor,” declared Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, while admitting that it has failed to honour its pledge to jointly allocate 0.56% of its gross domestic...
Third Africa-EU Summit Convenes in Libya: Second Action Plan on table
The third Africa-EU Summit to be held in Tripoli, Libya on the 29 and 30 November will be an opportunity for the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) to take stock of progress to date in the implementation of the Joint African–EU Strategy put in place in December 2007 and its first Action Plan. The Second Action...
‘AIDS 2010’ Conference, 18-23 July, Vienna, Austria: “Rights here, right now”
In 2008, some 33.4 million people worldwide were living with HIV. Sixty-seven per cent of those living with HIV and 91 per cent of new infections among children were in sub-Saharan Africa (AIDS Epidemic Update 2009 [UNAIDS/WHO]).Though there has been progress in fighting HIV/AIDS, the...
European aid is likely to reach 0.46 per cent of the EU’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010. This is a long way short of the 0.56 per cent intermediate target set for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The EU is therefore going to have to step on the accelerator if it is to honour its pledge, restated on 17 June, to increase its aid to 0.7 per cent of GDP by 2015. It...
Since the 10th century Krakow has also been a city of trade, testimony to which remains today in the form of Rynek Glowny, the market square covering four hectares and one of Europe’s biggest medieval squares. It is also a city of art and culture, with its many universities, including the famous Jageillonian University, Central Europe’s second oldest after Prague University. This...
Tyrol: One of Europe’s more stable economies
Interview with Eugen Sprenger, Acting Mayor of Innsbruck. Eugen Sprenger is the First Vice-Mayor of Innsbruck in charge, among other things, of social affairs. When The Courier visited Tyrol he was acting Mayor. Social affairs are of the highest priority in Austria and especially in the Tyrol region. Sprenger has a reputation of being close...
Innsbruck: where the shadows shine more than the light
A long way from the image of rural austerity with which Tyrol is sometimes saddled outside its frontiers, the region’s capital, Innsbruck, is a city of high culture, a place which invites the visitor to wander around aimlessly, in a reverie of romanticism. This is a city where in winter the atmosphere is sometimes even warmer and...
'South Wind' and 'Light for the World' fight aid cutbacks
Südwind is an Austrian NGO which is well established in the region of Tyrol. The organisation works tirelessly on the street, in public markets, universities and schools of all levels and lobbies political institutions to make its voice heard and increase awareness of the problems of poor countries in today...
Tyrol’s Soul
Way back in time, in the Middle Ages, the first influx of people settled in Tyrol. The region only saw a second wave of settlement in the 1960s (Ed. due to the development of tourism and industry), explained the historian Horst Schreiber to The Courier. In those intervening centuries, Tyrolean society had, by the force of circumstances, no other option but to rely on its...
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
With €53.8 billion (0.43% of its GDP), the European Union’s official development aid (ODA) reached a record level in 2010, up by €4.5 billion on 2009. “The EU remains incontestably the world’s leading donor,” declared Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, while admitting that it has failed to honour its pledge to jointly allocate 0.56% of its gross domestic...
Third Africa-EU Summit Convenes in Libya: Second Action Plan on table
The third Africa-EU Summit to be held in Tripoli, Libya on the 29 and 30 November will be an opportunity for the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) to take stock of progress to date in the implementation of the Joint African–EU Strategy put in place in December 2007 and its first Action Plan. The Second Action...
‘AIDS 2010’ Conference, 18-23 July, Vienna, Austria: “Rights here, right now”
In 2008, some 33.4 million people worldwide were living with HIV. Sixty-seven per cent of those living with HIV and 91 per cent of new infections among children were in sub-Saharan Africa (AIDS Epidemic Update 2009 [UNAIDS/WHO]).Though there has been progress in fighting HIV/AIDS, the...
European aid is likely to reach 0.46 per cent of the EU’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 2010. This is a long way short of the 0.56 per cent intermediate target set for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The EU is therefore going to have to step on the accelerator if it is to honour its pledge, restated on 17 June, to increase its aid to 0.7 per cent of GDP by 2015. It...
Since the 10th century Krakow has also been a city of trade, testimony to which remains today in the form of Rynek Glowny, the market square covering four hectares and one of Europe’s biggest medieval squares. It is also a city of art and culture, with its many universities, including the famous Jageillonian University, Central Europe’s second oldest after Prague University. This...
Tyrol: One of Europe’s more stable economies
Interview with Eugen Sprenger, Acting Mayor of Innsbruck. Eugen Sprenger is the First Vice-Mayor of Innsbruck in charge, among other things, of social affairs. When The Courier visited Tyrol he was acting Mayor. Social affairs are of the highest priority in Austria and especially in the Tyrol region. Sprenger has a reputation of being close...
Innsbruck: where the shadows shine more than the light
A long way from the image of rural austerity with which Tyrol is sometimes saddled outside its frontiers, the region’s capital, Innsbruck, is a city of high culture, a place which invites the visitor to wander around aimlessly, in a reverie of romanticism. This is a city where in winter the atmosphere is sometimes even warmer and...
'South Wind' and 'Light for the World' fight aid cutbacks
Südwind is an Austrian NGO which is well established in the region of Tyrol. The organisation works tirelessly on the street, in public markets, universities and schools of all levels and lobbies political institutions to make its voice heard and increase awareness of the problems of poor countries in today...
Tyrol’s Soul
Way back in time, in the Middle Ages, the first influx of people settled in Tyrol. The region only saw a second wave of settlement in the 1960s (Ed. due to the development of tourism and industry), explained the historian Horst Schreiber to The Courier. In those intervening centuries, Tyrolean society had, by the force of circumstances, no other option but to rely on its...
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