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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...
Interview with Dr Martin Uhomoibhi
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The recent holding of free and fair presidential elections, Nigeria’s role in conflict resolution in Africa, its global peace-keeping activities under a United Nations mandate and an average 7 per cent economic growth are all positives. The country is expected to achieve its development goals and become a...
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....
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...
On 15 March in Brussels, the President of the Committee of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) launched an offensive aimed at generating a new impetus on the part of the European Union and the United States to mobilise support of African cotton.
The action is being led by the UEMOA and the Cotton-4 group (C4) that represents the four producing countries (Burkina Faso,...
Trinidad and Tobago needs to find new ways to confront the ‘classic clash’ of the protection of a rich biodiversity pitched against industrialisation, says world renowned Trinbagonian biologist, Professor John Agard of T & T’s St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies.
In geological terms Trinidad and Tobago is a relatively new country, having...
“I would like to convey one of the Assembly’s concerns and that is the dramatic situation in Madagascar”, declared Louis Michel at the inaugural meeting of the 19th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly on 31 March in Tenerife (Spain).
Addressing Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, the MEP and Assembly co-president called on the EU Council to...
The visit to Botswana in March 2009 of James Anaya, United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, seems to have produced results. The Bushmen, driven from their ancestral lands in the Kalahari in 2002, will have their case heard once again by the High Court on 9 June.
The question was also raised at the European Parliament in March this year by Irish MEP Brian Crowley. He asked...
Tyrol, one of the nine Länder (States) of Austria, has been part of the nation since the middle of the fourteenth century, and yet at all times it has jealously guarded its unique character. There is no doubt that this is largely due to the geography of the region, with its valleys imprisoned by high mountains, which has made it more of a place to travel through than one to settle in....
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...
Interview with Dr Martin Uhomoibhi
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The recent holding of free and fair presidential elections, Nigeria’s role in conflict resolution in Africa, its global peace-keeping activities under a United Nations mandate and an average 7 per cent economic growth are all positives. The country is expected to achieve its development goals and become a...
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....
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...
On 15 March in Brussels, the President of the Committee of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) launched an offensive aimed at generating a new impetus on the part of the European Union and the United States to mobilise support of African cotton.
The action is being led by the UEMOA and the Cotton-4 group (C4) that represents the four producing countries (Burkina Faso,...
Trinidad and Tobago needs to find new ways to confront the ‘classic clash’ of the protection of a rich biodiversity pitched against industrialisation, says world renowned Trinbagonian biologist, Professor John Agard of T & T’s St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies.
In geological terms Trinidad and Tobago is a relatively new country, having...
“I would like to convey one of the Assembly’s concerns and that is the dramatic situation in Madagascar”, declared Louis Michel at the inaugural meeting of the 19th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly on 31 March in Tenerife (Spain).
Addressing Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, the MEP and Assembly co-president called on the EU Council to...
The visit to Botswana in March 2009 of James Anaya, United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, seems to have produced results. The Bushmen, driven from their ancestral lands in the Kalahari in 2002, will have their case heard once again by the High Court on 9 June.
The question was also raised at the European Parliament in March this year by Irish MEP Brian Crowley. He asked...
Tyrol, one of the nine Länder (States) of Austria, has been part of the nation since the middle of the fourteenth century, and yet at all times it has jealously guarded its unique character. There is no doubt that this is largely due to the geography of the region, with its valleys imprisoned by high mountains, which has made it more of a place to travel through than one to settle in....
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