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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...
Interview with The Courier
MB Our advantage is that to be President of the COR we have to be elected to local office. I attended the COR as President of the province of Turin (Italy) and subsequently for the region of Piedmont (Italy) but most importantly, as a locally elected representative. The COR must be consulted on a number of issues. But with the Treaty of Lisbon, we...
The Venice Biennial of Contemporary Art saw four new countries presenting their own official pavilions this year: Andorra, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and Haiti. The presence of these countries at the Biennial represented their participation in the most important global showcase of the contemporary art world. A year and half after its devastating earthquake, Haiti took up the challenge of asserting...
Migration, European Union support to South Sudan and trade issues topped the agenda of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers held on May 31st in Brussels.
Chairing the meeting, Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Jănos Martonyi, whose country was, at the time, in the EU’s rotating presidency chair, said that migration is currently a very sensitive issue in the EU. Migration problems will...
Taking Africa-EU space cooperation to new heights
The future of space cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the African continent was explored at a ‘Space for the African citizen’ event in Brussels on 16 September hosted by the EU’s current Belgian presidency.
Sabine Laruelle, Belgian Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises, the Self-Employed, Agriculture and...
All that is most dazzling in the fields of theatre, modern choreography, and music meets up in KVS – the Flemish Royal Theatre in Brussels – along with the exhibitions and the most avant-garde collective experiences of creation. The man behind the venue, Jan Gossens, talks to us about this legendary space and about the beating heart of culture in Flanders.
In comparison...
EU States must up their game to score MDGs
More and better EU aid can score Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says the annual report of AidWatch, published by the European Confederation for Relief and Development NGOs (CONCORD) which represents over 1,600 European Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs).
For four years, AidWatch has been tracking the ups and downs in both the quality and...
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...
The artistic duo Rose Shakinowsky and Claire Gavronsky were born in South Africa and live and work between Florence, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Twenty-five years ago, they left South Africa for Italy, where they established a prestigious artists' residency programme in Tuscany. Rosenclaire share their ideas through collaborative projects which have recently received important...
After holding the role of Prime Minister of Italy twice, as well as President of the European Commission, what international position does a politician aspire to next? Having overseen two fundamental European projects – the single currency and the fifth enlargement of the EU (the sixth enlargement came under the Barroso presidency) – Romano Prodi has now decided to turn...
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...
Interview with The Courier
MB Our advantage is that to be President of the COR we have to be elected to local office. I attended the COR as President of the province of Turin (Italy) and subsequently for the region of Piedmont (Italy) but most importantly, as a locally elected representative. The COR must be consulted on a number of issues. But with the Treaty of Lisbon, we...
The Venice Biennial of Contemporary Art saw four new countries presenting their own official pavilions this year: Andorra, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and Haiti. The presence of these countries at the Biennial represented their participation in the most important global showcase of the contemporary art world. A year and half after its devastating earthquake, Haiti took up the challenge of asserting...
Migration, European Union support to South Sudan and trade issues topped the agenda of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers held on May 31st in Brussels.
Chairing the meeting, Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Jănos Martonyi, whose country was, at the time, in the EU’s rotating presidency chair, said that migration is currently a very sensitive issue in the EU. Migration problems will...
Taking Africa-EU space cooperation to new heights
The future of space cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the African continent was explored at a ‘Space for the African citizen’ event in Brussels on 16 September hosted by the EU’s current Belgian presidency.
Sabine Laruelle, Belgian Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises, the Self-Employed, Agriculture and...
All that is most dazzling in the fields of theatre, modern choreography, and music meets up in KVS – the Flemish Royal Theatre in Brussels – along with the exhibitions and the most avant-garde collective experiences of creation. The man behind the venue, Jan Gossens, talks to us about this legendary space and about the beating heart of culture in Flanders.
In comparison...
EU States must up their game to score MDGs
More and better EU aid can score Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says the annual report of AidWatch, published by the European Confederation for Relief and Development NGOs (CONCORD) which represents over 1,600 European Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs).
For four years, AidWatch has been tracking the ups and downs in both the quality and...
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...
The artistic duo Rose Shakinowsky and Claire Gavronsky were born in South Africa and live and work between Florence, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Twenty-five years ago, they left South Africa for Italy, where they established a prestigious artists' residency programme in Tuscany. Rosenclaire share their ideas through collaborative projects which have recently received important...
After holding the role of Prime Minister of Italy twice, as well as President of the European Commission, what international position does a politician aspire to next? Having overseen two fundamental European projects – the single currency and the fifth enlargement of the EU (the sixth enlargement came under the Barroso presidency) – Romano Prodi has now decided to turn...
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