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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...
EU public gives big ‘yes’ to development aid
Nine out of ten European Union (EU) citizens say that aid for developing countries is very important or fairly important, according to the EU’s ‘Eurobarometer’ poll on ‘Europeans, development aid and the Millennium Development Goals’. It canvassed 26,500 EU citizens across all 27 EU Member States in June...
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...
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...
Rolandas Kvietauskas, director of ‘Vilnius-European Capital of Culture 2009’*, spoke to us about how the programme, supported by the European Commission and branded as Culture Live by organisers, journeys through the many diverse and rich influences of Lithuania, a crossroads for East and West European cultures. In the post since February 2009, he says Culture Live stretches from...
Lithuania's development policy looks East
Evaldas Ignatavičius, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of development cooperation policy, says his small country has a limited bilateral development budget and a global reach is difficult. Rather, it is targeting such aid to areas where it can be most effective in line with political objectives, such as its immediate...
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....
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1957. Treaty of Rome. Convention of Application - EDF 1
EEC (6 countries)
France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Federal Republic of Germany
Partners (31 OCTs)
French West Africa comprising : French west Africa, Guinea (1), Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Upper Volta
French Equatorial Africa, comprising : Cameroon (Trust Territory),...
Twenty years after the first scandals over the export of toxic waste to developing countries, the recent tragedy that occurred in Côte d’Ivoire is proof that the nightmare continues. This is despite measures taken at international level, a battle led by ACP Countries and the EU in particular, to put an end to the lucrative and deadly traffic.
The year, 1987: Not one week went...
It is difficult for new Member States of the European Union (EU), still seen today as ‘poor’ of the EU and hence receiving special aid amounting to some €8.5 billion from the European Cohesion Fund, to become fully-fledged members of the EU, the leading donor world-wide, providing more than 50% of total Official Development Assistance (ODA).
Upon joining the EU on May 1,...
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...
EU public gives big ‘yes’ to development aid
Nine out of ten European Union (EU) citizens say that aid for developing countries is very important or fairly important, according to the EU’s ‘Eurobarometer’ poll on ‘Europeans, development aid and the Millennium Development Goals’. It canvassed 26,500 EU citizens across all 27 EU Member States in June...
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...
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...
Rolandas Kvietauskas, director of ‘Vilnius-European Capital of Culture 2009’*, spoke to us about how the programme, supported by the European Commission and branded as Culture Live by organisers, journeys through the many diverse and rich influences of Lithuania, a crossroads for East and West European cultures. In the post since February 2009, he says Culture Live stretches from...
Lithuania's development policy looks East
Evaldas Ignatavičius, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of development cooperation policy, says his small country has a limited bilateral development budget and a global reach is difficult. Rather, it is targeting such aid to areas where it can be most effective in line with political objectives, such as its immediate...
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....
© EC
1957. Treaty of Rome. Convention of Application - EDF 1
EEC (6 countries)
France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Federal Republic of Germany
Partners (31 OCTs)
French West Africa comprising : French west Africa, Guinea (1), Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Upper Volta
French Equatorial Africa, comprising : Cameroon (Trust Territory),...
Twenty years after the first scandals over the export of toxic waste to developing countries, the recent tragedy that occurred in Côte d’Ivoire is proof that the nightmare continues. This is despite measures taken at international level, a battle led by ACP Countries and the EU in particular, to put an end to the lucrative and deadly traffic.
The year, 1987: Not one week went...
It is difficult for new Member States of the European Union (EU), still seen today as ‘poor’ of the EU and hence receiving special aid amounting to some €8.5 billion from the European Cohesion Fund, to become fully-fledged members of the EU, the leading donor world-wide, providing more than 50% of total Official Development Assistance (ODA).
Upon joining the EU on May 1,...
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