In this age of austerity, the forces of frugality are powerful; so is the temptation to defend national self-interest. The negotiations on the next 7-year budget of the EU are a case in point. And the biggest casualty of EU financial squabbles may well be humanitarian and development aid. Given the existing divergence of views [...]
In a ‘Letter to Europe’ published in the Financial Times, Oxfam and other NGOs of the Publish What You Pay coalition are calling key EU decision makers to resist pressure from the oil industry and champion transparency in oil, gas, mining and logging industries. The institutions of the European Union (EU)– the European Commission, the [...]
Figures released by the OECD today show that Europe has made widespread cuts to overseas aid in the last year. Indeed, development aid from most EU-15 countries has been slashed, leaving Europe even further off-track to meet its promise to give 0.7 per cent of national income by 2015 to the poorest. In practice these [...]
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