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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...
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...
Green spaces – including Trakai Park 28 km west of Vilnius – flowing rivers, fashionable and lively, Vilnius is a very livable city. Its eclectic architecture, from Baroque to heavy Soviet monuments draws more and more visitors. Throughout history, Lithuania’s changing populations have each left their respective marks on the city which now consists of 84.3 per cent...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Green spaces – including Trakai Park 28 km west of Vilnius – flowing rivers, fashionable and lively, Vilnius is a very livable city. Its eclectic architecture, from Baroque to heavy Soviet monuments draws more and more visitors. Throughout history, Lithuania’s changing populations have each left their respective marks on the city which now consists of 84.3 per cent...
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...
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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