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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...
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...
Andris Piebalgs, New EU Development Commissioner. “It may seem strange to have selected a development commissioner from a state that recently joined the EU”, the Latvian Andris Piebalgs noted with a certain humour and modesty in his speech at the European Parliament. Speaking alternately in English, French and German, however, the new Development Commissioner, formerly a European...
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...
At the EU’s most easterly edge at the centre of Europe
Vilnius, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, is the capital of Lithuania, one of three Baltic States. In geographical terms, is with Bucharest ( Romania) and Nicosia (Cyprus) one of the EU’s most easterly capitals, yet according to studies done by French cartographers, it sits at the centre of Europe. A look at...
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....
Providing access to resources and ensuring sustainable development at the same time can sometimes prove impossible. This has been highlighted by the difficulties encountered in implementing the partnership agreement between the EU and Mauritania.
In December 2007, the European Commission revoked the agreement between the EU and Mauritania, as “EU ship owners were not making full use...
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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),...
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...
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...
Andris Piebalgs, New EU Development Commissioner. “It may seem strange to have selected a development commissioner from a state that recently joined the EU”, the Latvian Andris Piebalgs noted with a certain humour and modesty in his speech at the European Parliament. Speaking alternately in English, French and German, however, the new Development Commissioner, formerly a European...
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...
At the EU’s most easterly edge at the centre of Europe
Vilnius, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, is the capital of Lithuania, one of three Baltic States. In geographical terms, is with Bucharest ( Romania) and Nicosia (Cyprus) one of the EU’s most easterly capitals, yet according to studies done by French cartographers, it sits at the centre of Europe. A look at...
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....
Providing access to resources and ensuring sustainable development at the same time can sometimes prove impossible. This has been highlighted by the difficulties encountered in implementing the partnership agreement between the EU and Mauritania.
In December 2007, the European Commission revoked the agreement between the EU and Mauritania, as “EU ship owners were not making full use...
© 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),...
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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