BRUSSELS – At a conference on the impact of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) on development, the
United Nations Millennium Campaign today called on the EU to urgently reform its agriculture policy, which harms the poor and thwarts global efforts to achieve the
By Andrew Burgess
In Brussels today, the European Commission adopted what it calls an “ambitious action plan” for European Union (EU)-wide action to speed up its progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Source: Plan Ireland website
The Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, Salil Shetty, has called on the Irish government to honor its pledge to spend of 0.7% of national income on overseas development assistance.
He was referring to a pledge which was made at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 by the then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
Although the EU is by far the world’s largest donor of development aid, its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – which represents almost half of the EU’s budget – causes poverty and suffering in developing countries and derails the EU’s own development cooperation efforts.
The UN Millennium Campaign Founder, Eveline Herfkens, will discuss how the CAP hurts the poor and undermines development efforts, during a seminar organized by the United Nations Millennium Campaign in Brussels on 29 April.
By Tiziana Cauli
When in mid-2008 I started focusing mainly on development topics as a reporter, I didn't think I would write much about my home country. Back then, Italy was about to cut its foreign aid budget by over 55 per cent, reaching a 20 year low in its development and cooperation funding.
