EU Ministers adopt a series of conclusions on development and external relations policies
The EU’s General Affairs and External Relations Council meeting on 17 November 2009 adopted conclusions on the European Communities development and external assistance policies; on an operational framework on aid effectiveness; and on policy coherence for development. This opens a variety of opportunities for advancing a joint European agenda for technical cooperation reform and calls for an action plan for policy coherence for development to be established next year.
In relation to meeting development aid targets, a European Commission (EC) report showed that so far, four countries— Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden—are above the 0.7 percent level and Ireland is above 0.56 percent. The EC Development Commissioner warned Ministers that just five of the twenty-seven Member States are on course to meet a self-imposed target of giving 0.56 percent of national income in aid to developing countries by 2010. That target was an interim benchmark on the way to a pledge agreed by the Member States that they should give 0.7 percent of gross national income in aid by 2015.
Link to: "EU Council conclusions on European Community’s Development and External Assistance Policies"
and EU Council conclusions on an Operational Framework on Aid Effectiveness
and EU Council conclusions on Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) http://tinyurl.com/yf8nyuu
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