CGD Europe

In late February, the UK confirmed it would undertake an “Integrated Review” of its foreign policy, defence, security, and international development. Whil attention has rightly shifted to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK will soon restart work to “overhaul its approach to foreign policy” and “defi...

Ahead of the publication of the next Commitment to Development Index this spring, Lee Robinson and Ian Mitchell outline the findings from three external reviews, and highlight ways the differences in the forthcoming CDI.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent reshuffle saw substantial changes to the Department for International Development’s (DFID) and Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) ministerial teams, the most striking of which was that the two departments will share all of their junior ministers while ea...