Press releases

Oxfam International News

2 Feb - Risk of epidemic in Mozambique after the recent floods
27 Jan - Strong political will needed from African leaders to boost critical aspects of intra-African trade
23 Jan - Oxfam welcomes independent process to address community grievances in Uganda land dispute
20 Jan - African Nations Cup stars join Oxfam to win the match against hunger

Plan International News

2 Feb - South Sudan: Put children at the centre of resolving crisis
1 Feb - Girls campaigner rescued in Atlantic record attempt
1 Feb - We need to talk about Niger
31 Jan - Immersed in the Refugee Run

SOLIDAR News

Releases and Publications

ES Advisory Note: Promoting social and economic justice in South Asia: EU Cooperation with the Region

8 June 2011 - View here
EEPA PR - Can the European Union learn from Dutch development aid successes?

30 May 2011 - View here
EEPA PR - European aid supports Eritrea, land of Child Soldiers and forced labour

3 May 2011 - View here
EEPA Briefing - EU Policy on Civil Society Organisations

15 February 2011 - View here

Eurodad News

ENPI News

Egypt's popular putsch

By Daniel Korski - 26 Jan 12 - It is too early to write off Egypt's revolution. Unlike in...
Trade as a cornerstone for the EU Eastern Partnership

Karel de Gucht speech, 23 January 2012
Balkan economies confront the global crisis

Belgrade resident Jelena Stankovic, 33, works in an international creative marketing agency, surviving cut after cut in both staffing...

Asia News

Beijing: financial aid to Euro zone has ‘no preconditions’

MercoPress, 21st September

Beijing's plan to provide financial aid to the European Union is not contingent on Europe supporting a...
European twilight, Asian sunrise

East Asia Forum, 15 September 2011

The last economic era, roughly from 1980 to 2008, was the most successful combination...
Ageing populations could hurt Asian growth, says ADB

BBC News 14th September 2011

Fast aging populations in Asian countries need to be properly managed, to ensure future growth...

Latin America News

China becomes Peru’s main trade partner and a leading investor

Peruvian Prime Minister Salomon Lerner said that China’s direct investments in the country would increase between 30% and 40%...
IMF chief praises Latinamerica, which can provide ‘some lessons to the advanced world’

IMF chief Christine Lagarde who this week will be visiting Latinamerica said that Brazil, Mexico and Peru, like to...
Brazil's development: Is it sustainable for people and planet?

By MAGGIE JARUZEL POTTER

ACP News

Agricultural Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) has promoted the integrated agriculture research for development (IAR4D) approach based...
Using small-scale adaptations to address food crisis in the Horn of Africa

paper by Richard Munang and Johnson N. Nkem
Special Economic Zones for South Africa

Paul Kruger, a tralac Researcher, discusses Special Economic Zones for South Africa.

Europe Media Monitor

6 Feb - Let the country, not the City, drive the UK economy | Colin Tudge
6 Feb - Midday Express of 2012-02-06
6 Feb - Romanian PM resigns over anti-government protests
6 Feb - Malawi officials in Mozambique to discuss Nsanje port
6 Feb - Euro zone strugglers lack innovative knack
6 Feb - Analysis: Euro zone strugglers lack innovative knack (Reuters)

Press releases

Attention: open in a new window.

For more EU press releases see also links at bottom of page

27.10.10, Eurostep
The New Commission Directorate for Development must deliver on the EU's Commitments

19.07.10, Eurostep
The EU’s commitment to the Millennium Development Goals — Make it more than an illusion

26.04.10, Cafod, Cidse, Eurostep, Concord, ONE, Oxfam International
Lawyers reveal Ashton’s EEAS proposal breaches EU law, warn development NGOs

23.04.10, Cafod, Cidse, Eurostep, Concord
Lawyers say Ashton’s EEAS proposal contradicts Lisbon Treaty

15.04.10, Dochas
Protecting development cooperation in EU external relations

14.04.10, Concord
Broken EU aid promises push Millennium Development Goals out of reach,says CONCORD as OECD announces aid figures
25.03.10, Joint statement of EPP, S&D, ALDE, Greens/EFA
EEAS proposals unacceptable to European Parliament
25.03.10, Social Watch
Social Watch reacts to Ashton’s pre-emptive announcement of the EEAS deal with the European Commission
25.03.10, EUROSTEP
Ashton's Proposals for the EEAS Contradicts the Intentions of the Treaty

25.03.10, Oxfam International
Oxfam reaction to Ashton’s proposal on the new European External Action Service

1.12.09, CIDSE

The South sues the European Union
19.11.09, EC

Ghana to sign first voluntary partnership agreement with EU on legal timber exports

17.11.09, Council
Council conclusions on Policy Coherence for Development

17.11.09, Council
Council conclusions on Progress on the European Programme for Action to confront HIV, Malaria, Tb

17.11.09, Council
Council conclusions on European Community's Development and External Assistance Policies

17.11.09, Council
Council conclusions on Democracy Support in the EU’s External Relations

17.11.09 Council
Council conclusions on an Operational Framework on Aid Effectiveness

17.11.09, EC
Development Aid: Karel De Gucht calls on all EU Member States to 'work together' to ensure billions of euros in aid doesn't get wasted

16.11.09, CIDSE
A recipe for prolonged global hunger

13.11.09, Oxfam
Aiming for consensus on development policy

12.11.09, CIDSE
Catholic development agencies say World Food Summit must tackle hunger with just and sustainable solutions

12.11.09, EEPA
High-level Horn of Africa conference calls on EU, US to strengthen civil society as way to peace

30.10.09, CIDSE

Numbers on the table, but where is the money coming from?

29.10.09, EP
Climate protection: "We can do it"

27.10.09, Council
Council conclusions on the Great Lakes Region

27.10.09, Council
Restrictive measures against the Republic of Guinea

27.10.09, EC
Think “Fragile First” warns European Development Report

27.10.09, Caritas
European faith-based networks worried about EU’s role at UN Climate Change Conference

22.10.09, EC
European approach to development aid could bring at least €3 and 6 billion a year in gains

21.10.09, CIDSE
Faith Based Development Agencies slam EU Finance Ministers for inaction on Climate Finance

19.10.09, EC
European Commission urges urgent implementation of Zimbabwe's Global Political Agreement to maintain political stability

19.10.09, EC
Nine out of ten Europeans still strongly support development aid despite the downturn

15.10.09, CIDSE
Policy Coherence for Development and the “Whole of the Union” Smokescreen

14.10.09, EC 
Afghanistan: European Commission provides a further €2 million in humanitarian aid

13.10.2009, ICRC
Somalia: civilians' plight still worsening

9.10.09, CAFOD 
Honduras: partners condemn decree

8.10.09, EP
Financial crisis: MEPs demand more help for poorest countries

25.09.09, EPA Watch
Activists and campaigners in 30 countries demand turnaround in EPA negotiations

24.09.09, Oxfam 
100 people every minute pushed into poverty by the economic crisis

24.09.09, Swedish EU presidency
Climate change necessitates cooperation in all EU policy areas

24.09.09, Oxfam
World leaders announce free health care lifeline for millions

22.09.09, odi
The effects of the global financial crisis: what developing country experts are saying

18.09.09, EP
Seventeen chairs of parliamentary delegations elected

17.09.09, EC
EU policies are more coherent for development

16.09.09, IRC 
Brussels conference marks 60th anniversary of Geneva Conventions

15.09.09, Oxfam
Too poor to pay: Over sixty organisations call on world leaders to make free healthcare a reality for millions

15.09.09, Council 
Conclusions on Sudan

10.09.09, EC
European Commission and Swedish EU Presidency to visit Zimbabwe in bid to restore eventual aid co-operation

8.09.09, EC 
Commission allocates a further 53 million euro in humanitarian aid for drought response in Africa

7.09.09, Oxfam 
Oxfam reaction to G20 finance ministers meeting

4.09.09, Oxfam 
$280bn bailout for poor need not cost ordinary taxpayers a penny

31.08.09, EC 
Interim Economic Partnership Agreements: Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA)

27.08.09, EP 
MEPs keen to support Iranian civil society

25.08.09, FSNAU 
Somalia: Half the Population in Humanitarian Crisis Amid An Escalating Civil War

19.08.09, Oxfam 
A third of Afghans at risk of hunger shows need for urgent aid reforms

18.08.09, EC 
EU concerned over increasing risks to humanitarian workers on first World Humanitarian Day

14.08.09, EC 
The EU in AFGHANISTAN – assistance and support to the democratic process

13.08.09, Oxfam
Geneva Conventions reach 60. Are they working for poor people?

13.08.09, ICRC
Israel: Survey reveals public attitudes towards rules of war

13.08.09, Council
Peter Bindt new EU Force Commander of EU NAVFOR Somalia

13.08.09, EC
European Commission allocates €9 million to reinforce food security in Zimbabwe

12.08.09, Council 
Declaration on the Maputo Political Accord on Madagascar

12.08.09, Oxfam
Kenya: Drought beckons in the neglected north

12.08.09, ICRC 
Sixty years of the Geneva Conventions: learning from the past to better face the future

12.08.09, CAFOD 
How the impact of climate change on developing countries is a matter of justice

11.08.09, IDS 
Joto Afrika - Adaptation to climate change

10.08.09, ActionAid 
ActionAid is calling on Clinton to help end violence against women and girls in DRC

10.08.09, ICRC 
ICRC poll shows rules of armed conflict enjoy broad support but are considered to have limited impact

10.08.09, Oxfam 
DR Congo: Clinton Should Highlight Rape and Justice Issues

5.08.09, CAFOD
Peru: International outcry brings action

3.08.09, EC
European Commission approves Tanzania's biggest ever EU cooperation programme

31.07.09, ICRC 
The 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions

30.07.09, IATI
Improving aid transparency: a new initiative

30.07.09, CAFOD 
Honduras: Coup affects the poorest most

24.07.09 //

Eurostep Weekly

LDC Watch

CTA News (ACP-EU)

InDepthNews

5 Feb - 'Plug and Play' To Bridge NATO Asymmetries
4 Feb - NATO Helps Clean APM Killers in Tajikistan
3 Feb - India and Norway Resolve Child Care Dispute

Social Watch

Blog Piebalgs

Blog of Commissioner Andris Piebalgs

27 Jan - Trade and Development: friends not foes
Today, for the first time, the European Commission presents a joint vision of how trade, investment and development policies can work hand in hand to help fighting poverty. I am proud of this Communication, which provides a complete, comprehensive and well articulated approach of how best to combine our respective competencies and instruments. Sorry for [...]
25 Jan - Aid has to be modernised; EU is not pulling out from middle income countries (MICs)
The European Union, like many other donors, is currently exploring the best ways to fight against poverty around the world. Faced with differentiation between developing countries, some of which have become aid donors themselves while others suffer from increasing fragility, the EU must ensure the greatest impact and best value for money for its aid. [...]
5 Dec - A View from Busan
I’m just back from the Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, which took place in South Korea last week. It was a busy few days of negotiations, exchanges and discussions, but I’m glad to say that we finally agreed on an outcome which I think we can all be proud of. The Global Partnership [...]

Blog Georgieva

Commissioner Georgieva\'s Blog

5 Feb - The European Parliament as the voice of the citizens – my experience from last week
I have been at the Plenary of the European Parliament a number of times, always a learning experience. Last week was no exception. And it is worth telling my readers about it, since the Parliament discussed a report of direct relevance for my work – a review of humanitarian funds management drafted by MEP [...]
21 Jan - Chad’s silent children – the sad face of malnutrition
In the city of Mao in Kanem province in Chad, there is a hospital we fund where the sound of silence on the children’s ward is chilling. It’s strange to be with children who are so quiet. In the intensive care ward where they are treating babies for severe acute malnutrition there are fifteen mothers with [...]
19 Jan - The mothers of Niger
I met Rahi Harouna when she was making an important life decision – and getting moral support from what many may regard as a surprising source. Rahi, a 38-year-old mother of five children, was at a health centre run by the aid agency Concern and funded by the European Commission in the village of [...]

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/tools/rss/ep_syndicationrss.swf" height="390" width="200" id="ep_syndicationrss" align="middle"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/tools/rss/ep_syndicationrss.swf"/><param name="scale" value="noscale" /> <param name="salign" value="lt" /><param name="quality" value="high"/><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"/> <param name="flashvars" value="t=full&o=RTF&l=en&e=5&f=/rss/news/press-release-en.xml,/rss/news/agenda-en.xml"/></object>

News Feed

ATOM 1.0

Development Policy Quiz

Quiz on Development Policy

Take a quiz on EU Development Policy here.

EU Quizzes is an extensive website with

quizzes on most EU related topics.