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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...
Africa represents the ideal field for testing the procedures of the European Security and Defence Policy. That is the view of Niagalé Bagayoko-Penone, an expert on Security and Development at Sussex University’s Institute for Development Studies (IDS) in the United Kingdom.
It all began with Operation Artemis, the first EU intervention outside its immediate neighbourhood. It was...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has moved up a gear in the past two years when it comes to financing small and medium-sized enterprises in the ACP countries. This is in line with the pressing demands of the ACP Group, which on 15 July held a workshop on “Enhancing access to finance for SMEs”; seen as the backbone of ACP economies.
According to the December 2010 figures, the EIB...
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...
Léogâne - 29 km to the west of Port-au-Prince. First impressions are that nothing’s changed since last year. Tents, sheet-metal and wooden huts are still an eyesore in the birthplace of Anacaona, the Arawak queen famed for both her beauty and political insight and who was head of the Xaragua, one of the country’s five chiefdoms before the arrival of Christopher Columbus....
This questioning sums up the comments of two European ambassadors, Didier Le Bret of France and Jens Peter Voss of Germany, who shared with The Courier their analysis of the situation of Haiti a year after the earthquake. With some subtle differences of opinion. . .
For France, with its long shared history with Haiti, the 2010 earthquake was an opportunity to strengthen links with...
A painter and engraver, Rashid Diab is also an architect in his spare time, and especially when it comes to building a center dedicated to the arts in downtown Khartoum.
"The center that I built should prepare people to fight using culture as a tool, "says Rashid Diab from the outset, and continues: "This country suffers on the inside. Cooperation with the West has been...
Once part of the Swedish and - subsequently - the Russian empire Turku, a city of 177,500 people in Southwest Finland (300,000 in the wider Turku area), has grown at the side of the River Aura and become a thriving trading and cultural hub. The recognition of its vibrancy in the arts was the announcement of its status as European Capital of Culture for 2011, along with Estonia’s capital,...
Long overlooked - in terms of both commerce and tourism - in favour of the 'Land' and city of Berlin embedded right in the middle of its territory, Brandenburg is beginning to wake up. Granted "Land" status following the reunification of Germany, this former region of the German Democratic Republic under the Soviet yoke, has managed to curb an endemic unemployment record and...
The 1945 agreements cut three cities in half and defined the new border between East Germany and Poland. What do the three of these cities have in common? They are all crossed by the Oder River and further south by its tributary, the Neisse. Since Poland's integration into the Schengen area at the end of 2007, allowing the free movement of persons, these three 'twin-cities' have...
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...
Africa represents the ideal field for testing the procedures of the European Security and Defence Policy. That is the view of Niagalé Bagayoko-Penone, an expert on Security and Development at Sussex University’s Institute for Development Studies (IDS) in the United Kingdom.
It all began with Operation Artemis, the first EU intervention outside its immediate neighbourhood. It was...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has moved up a gear in the past two years when it comes to financing small and medium-sized enterprises in the ACP countries. This is in line with the pressing demands of the ACP Group, which on 15 July held a workshop on “Enhancing access to finance for SMEs”; seen as the backbone of ACP economies.
According to the December 2010 figures, the EIB...
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...
Léogâne - 29 km to the west of Port-au-Prince. First impressions are that nothing’s changed since last year. Tents, sheet-metal and wooden huts are still an eyesore in the birthplace of Anacaona, the Arawak queen famed for both her beauty and political insight and who was head of the Xaragua, one of the country’s five chiefdoms before the arrival of Christopher Columbus....
This questioning sums up the comments of two European ambassadors, Didier Le Bret of France and Jens Peter Voss of Germany, who shared with The Courier their analysis of the situation of Haiti a year after the earthquake. With some subtle differences of opinion. . .
For France, with its long shared history with Haiti, the 2010 earthquake was an opportunity to strengthen links with...
A painter and engraver, Rashid Diab is also an architect in his spare time, and especially when it comes to building a center dedicated to the arts in downtown Khartoum.
"The center that I built should prepare people to fight using culture as a tool, "says Rashid Diab from the outset, and continues: "This country suffers on the inside. Cooperation with the West has been...
Once part of the Swedish and - subsequently - the Russian empire Turku, a city of 177,500 people in Southwest Finland (300,000 in the wider Turku area), has grown at the side of the River Aura and become a thriving trading and cultural hub. The recognition of its vibrancy in the arts was the announcement of its status as European Capital of Culture for 2011, along with Estonia’s capital,...
Long overlooked - in terms of both commerce and tourism - in favour of the 'Land' and city of Berlin embedded right in the middle of its territory, Brandenburg is beginning to wake up. Granted "Land" status following the reunification of Germany, this former region of the German Democratic Republic under the Soviet yoke, has managed to curb an endemic unemployment record and...
The 1945 agreements cut three cities in half and defined the new border between East Germany and Poland. What do the three of these cities have in common? They are all crossed by the Oder River and further south by its tributary, the Neisse. Since Poland's integration into the Schengen area at the end of 2007, allowing the free movement of persons, these three 'twin-cities' have...
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