Czech Republic
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...
The pilot phase to set up a European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps was launched in Budapest, Hungary on 17 June. The vision of an EU voluntary corps is set out in the EU’s Treaty of Lisbon which came into force in 2009.
After extensive consultation with stakeholders on the design of the future corps, EU officials say that this test phase will build on existing volunteering schemes...
Josè da Silva is the manager of Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, and his company, LUSAFRICA Productions, represents a true success story in the African cultural industry. The Courier met him at the ‘Girona Conference on Culture and Development’, which was held on 4 and 5 May and organised by the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation and the EC’s DG Development...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
Bulgaria is a newcomer to the EU-ACP partnership. As an economy in transition, it has itself been a recipient of foreign aid for the past 20 years. Nonetheless the Balkan state gained experience in development cooperation when the Communist regime was in power. From the early 1960s until the end of the 1980s, Bulgaria was a donor of development aid to over 40 countries including some in sub-...
On joining the European Union (EU), Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the EU’s 12 ‘new’ Member States had little experience of development cooperation in the South. Set up in 2000, Vienna-based TRIALOG funded by the European Commission and Austrian Development Cooperation has been helping to link up the EU’s NGOs in the North, South and East in “building...
The 34th ACP-EU Council met in Brussels on 28 and 29 May under the co-presidency of Helena Bambasova, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, and William Haomae, President of the ACP Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade of the Solomon Islands. The EU and the ACP group launched the second revision of the Cotonou Agreement at this meeting. Having been concluded...
The financial and food crises, the Economic Partnership Agreements and the conclusions of the G20 summit in London were on the agenda for the members of the ACP-EU Joint Assembly, which met in Prague from 4 to 9 April. The parliamentarians also adopted an emergency resolution on Somalia and the issue of piracy which is rife off the coast of the country.
In her opening session speech, MEP...
Cuts in the respective Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) budgets for 2009 of several EU states as a result of their shrinking economies will cost lives in developing nations, says a leading Irish NGO.
In December 2008, Italy announced aid cuts of 56 per cent. At the beginning of 2009, Latvia slashed its spending by 100 per cent and in March 2009, Estonia cut its budget by 10 per cent....
Martina Chladova studies in Prague, where she is the vice president of a group of volunteers who welcome foreign students in the Czech Republic within the framework of the Erasmus programme. This pragmatic young woman sees Europe as an essential transition in an increasingly rapidly changing world.
Almost 20 years separate Martina Chladova and Simon Panek. “My generation did not...
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...
The pilot phase to set up a European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps was launched in Budapest, Hungary on 17 June. The vision of an EU voluntary corps is set out in the EU’s Treaty of Lisbon which came into force in 2009.
After extensive consultation with stakeholders on the design of the future corps, EU officials say that this test phase will build on existing volunteering schemes...
Josè da Silva is the manager of Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, and his company, LUSAFRICA Productions, represents a true success story in the African cultural industry. The Courier met him at the ‘Girona Conference on Culture and Development’, which was held on 4 and 5 May and organised by the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation and the EC’s DG Development...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
Bulgaria is a newcomer to the EU-ACP partnership. As an economy in transition, it has itself been a recipient of foreign aid for the past 20 years. Nonetheless the Balkan state gained experience in development cooperation when the Communist regime was in power. From the early 1960s until the end of the 1980s, Bulgaria was a donor of development aid to over 40 countries including some in sub-...
On joining the European Union (EU), Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the EU’s 12 ‘new’ Member States had little experience of development cooperation in the South. Set up in 2000, Vienna-based TRIALOG funded by the European Commission and Austrian Development Cooperation has been helping to link up the EU’s NGOs in the North, South and East in “building...
The 34th ACP-EU Council met in Brussels on 28 and 29 May under the co-presidency of Helena Bambasova, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, and William Haomae, President of the ACP Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade of the Solomon Islands. The EU and the ACP group launched the second revision of the Cotonou Agreement at this meeting. Having been concluded...
The financial and food crises, the Economic Partnership Agreements and the conclusions of the G20 summit in London were on the agenda for the members of the ACP-EU Joint Assembly, which met in Prague from 4 to 9 April. The parliamentarians also adopted an emergency resolution on Somalia and the issue of piracy which is rife off the coast of the country.
In her opening session speech, MEP...
Cuts in the respective Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) budgets for 2009 of several EU states as a result of their shrinking economies will cost lives in developing nations, says a leading Irish NGO.
In December 2008, Italy announced aid cuts of 56 per cent. At the beginning of 2009, Latvia slashed its spending by 100 per cent and in March 2009, Estonia cut its budget by 10 per cent....
Martina Chladova studies in Prague, where she is the vice president of a group of volunteers who welcome foreign students in the Czech Republic within the framework of the Erasmus programme. This pragmatic young woman sees Europe as an essential transition in an increasingly rapidly changing world.
Almost 20 years separate Martina Chladova and Simon Panek. “My generation did not...
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