EU Aid in the News

IPS - Recovery Could Leave Behind World's Poorest - By Selina Rust, 1/04/10 - The world's 49 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the poor, could feel the effects of the global economic crisis for decades, a senior U.N. official warned this week.

Under-Secretary-General Cheick Sidi Diarra told IPS that if the international community does not live up to pledges made under Brussels Programme of Action nearly a decade ago, even the small gains made during 2000-2008 could be reversed.
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IPS - World's poor pawns in EU battle over diplomatic corps -

By David Cronin, 31/03/10: The world's poor appear to have become pawns in a political battle over the European Union's (EU) new diplomatic corps.Catherine Ashton, foreign policy chief for the 27-country bloc, is urging that responsibility for development aid should fall within the scope of the European External Action Service (EEAS) that she is in the process of establishing.

In recent statements, Ashton has argued that if the EU is to have a successful development policy, it must be compatible with its broader strategies on issues such as security.

Yet many observers of European politics suspect that the British baroness is more concerned with seizing control of a sizeable budget than in ensuring that development aid brings tangible benefits to the poor. At 15 billion dollars per year, development aid represents one of the top five areas of spending administered by the EU's executive arm, the European Commission.

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Pambazuka News: Eritrea - Alone against the world -

By Nikolaj Nielsen, 25/11/09, (Pambazuka News): Commenting on events at a Brussels conference for the promotion of peace and human rights in Eritrea, Nikolaj Nielsen reports on a country which Reporters Without Borders ranks lower on press freedom than North Korea. 'Eritrea', Nielsen writes, 'was the promise that never evolved' and a country 'unable to come to terms with lasting peace'.

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Population Movement Tracking (PMT) Report for August 2009 Print E-mail

Please find below, the Population Movement Tracking (PMT) Report for August 2009.

The report has several components.

  1. Analysis of the month's population movements (PDF). This is presented in a new format, with the intention to make the data more accessible. A simplified map is included within the analysis.
  2. Matrix giving the details of all the movements reported during the month (Excel spreadsheet)
  3. Google Earth File showing the locations where IDPs have gone, by reason, and over time. It covers the period Jan 2007-Aug 2009. (KMZ file)
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