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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...
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...
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...
The following text is a communication by European Commission (Directorate-General for Development). Winners of the EU European Development Youth Prize visited projects on the ground in Zambia, 3-7 March 2009. Through their visits and meetings, they have become EU ambassadors for development, able to pass on to their fellow students back home what they have learnt about development policy...
Africa seems to have been better known in the distant past. Herodotus, a true reporter and researcher, approached it with the impartiality required of the journalist or the scientist. In the 5th century BC he even referred to pygmies. Yet it is one of his contemporaries, Socrates, who, while only having visited Egypt, would remain the most famous for the transfer of knowledge from Africa to...
“There are not so many conceptions of the principle of the separation of powers, the presumption of innocence or of freedom of expression!” With these words, European Development Commissioner, Louis Michel set the tone for the debates of the 15th EU-ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA), held in Ljubljana from 17 to 20 March.
The agenda in Slovenia’s capital was...
It’s not easy to assess an individual European Union (EU) country’s contribution to relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations during its six-month turn in the rotating EU Presidency chair. There’s always an element of ‘business as usual’. As Slovenia, in charge since 1 January 2008, hands over to France (1 July – 31 December), we look at...
New areas of cooperation and differences over future trade relations between South Africa and the European Union (EU) were top billing at the joint ministerial meeting between the two in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 3 June, ahead of the first ever South Africa-EU Summit in Bordeaux, France, on 25 July.
Co-chaired by South Africa’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosawana...
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...
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...
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...
The following text is a communication by European Commission (Directorate-General for Development). Winners of the EU European Development Youth Prize visited projects on the ground in Zambia, 3-7 March 2009. Through their visits and meetings, they have become EU ambassadors for development, able to pass on to their fellow students back home what they have learnt about development policy...
Africa seems to have been better known in the distant past. Herodotus, a true reporter and researcher, approached it with the impartiality required of the journalist or the scientist. In the 5th century BC he even referred to pygmies. Yet it is one of his contemporaries, Socrates, who, while only having visited Egypt, would remain the most famous for the transfer of knowledge from Africa to...
“There are not so many conceptions of the principle of the separation of powers, the presumption of innocence or of freedom of expression!” With these words, European Development Commissioner, Louis Michel set the tone for the debates of the 15th EU-ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA), held in Ljubljana from 17 to 20 March.
The agenda in Slovenia’s capital was...
It’s not easy to assess an individual European Union (EU) country’s contribution to relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations during its six-month turn in the rotating EU Presidency chair. There’s always an element of ‘business as usual’. As Slovenia, in charge since 1 January 2008, hands over to France (1 July – 31 December), we look at...
New areas of cooperation and differences over future trade relations between South Africa and the European Union (EU) were top billing at the joint ministerial meeting between the two in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 3 June, ahead of the first ever South Africa-EU Summit in Bordeaux, France, on 25 July.
Co-chaired by South Africa’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosawana...
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