Europe Development News |
'Friends Of Development'
Needed To Save Aid Levels In EU Budget Talks
Development cooperation spending may be reduced in the current negotiations of the next EU budget, ECDPM reports. As the negotiations move to the concluding phase, development cooperation lacks a support group similar to the 'Friends of Cohesion' or 'Friends of Better Spending'. November will be a decisive month, as the Multiannual Financial Framework talks begin to focus on concrete allocation proposals for the first time. A Talking Points article presents four possible financial scenarios and analyses their implications for development cooperation.
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Former Liberal Politician Opens New Debate On Dutch Development Policy
Farah Karimi, The Director of Oxfam Novib, and Thijs Berman, European Parliament member of the Dutch Labour Party contradicted former Liberal Party politician Frits Bolkenstein (pictured), who recently argued that Dutch development aid has not contributed to the current economic growth in Africa, Volkskrant reports. Karimi argues that economic growth in Africa is stimulated by education and health care, both of which being sectors on which Dutch development cooperation has focused for many years. Berman emphasised that cynical policies of donor countries and multinational companies, rather than development assistance, have hindered economic development in the past.
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Italian Civil Society Demands End To Libyan Immigration Agreement
As part of Amnesty International’s European migration campaign "When you don’t exist", calling on European states to put human rights at the centre of their migration policies, a delegation of Amnesty International Italia have presented 28,474 signatures to the Ministry of Interior demanding they end an agreement signed in April with Libya on immigration control, La Republica reports. The agreement marked continued bilateral cooperation, despite the 'on-going rights violations against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Libya', according to Giusy D'Alconzo of Amnesty International.
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CSOs Urge Nordic Governments To End Tax Haven Investments
In an open letter to the development ministers of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, several Nordic civil society organizations (CSOs) including Forum Syd, Africa Groups of Sweden, Action Aid and CONCORD Sweden, Norwegian Church Aid and Save the Children Norway have called for an end to tax haven investments and for increased transparency of Nordic Development Finance Institutions (DFIs).
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CGD in Europe Update |
The Politics And Economics Of Britain's Foreign Aid: The Pergau Dam Affair
The Center for Global Development in Europe and the Institute for Government are pleased to host a meeting this evening on the controversial Pergau Dam Affair. The Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration at the time Sir Tim Lankester will be speaking about his recently published book on the subject and the various developmental, political and legal issues involved. Sir Simon Jenkins, the columnist who covered the affair will discuss its political impact in the UK and CGD's Owen Barder will discuss the implications for development and governance.
We will be live-tweeting throughout the evening using the #Pergau hashtag.
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