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February 20, 2012

Meeting report: The European Commission launches its latest trade strategy

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The EU is the most open trading bloc in the world, around three quarters of EU imports from developing countries are duty free – this is a much larger share than imports to the US and China. However, Least Developed Countries (LDCs) continue to account for a low share of global trade, experiencing an increase in their share of global trade of just 0.4% (from 0.8% to 1.2%) over the last decade. In the view of recent trends, the European Commission has decided to review its traditional trade and development tools, in a bid to tailor them to those countries that are getting left behind.

On 7 February 2012, the European Commission held a public consultation meeting on its latest trade strategy – ‘Trade, Growth & Development: tailoring trade and investment policy for those countries most in need’, which was released at the end of January.

ODI’s Jodie Keane reports back in this meeting report.

 

February 14, 2012

Simon and Siân give evidence to the IDC inquiry on EU development assistance

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The International Development Committee recently called Simon Maxwell and Siân Herbert to give oral evidence at a session for the inquiry into EU development assistance.

The session covered a vast array of issues including:

  • The EU’s new development strategy – An Agenda for Change;
  •  The comparative advantages of the EC, compared to both bilateral and multiateral donors;
  •  The differences between the EU’s central development instruments, and the European Development Fund (EDF);
  • How the EU should deal with middle-incomes countries;
  • Administration costs – looking at the tricky task of comparing DFID to the European Commission’s development projects; and
  • Policy coherence for development.

Click here for a transcript of the session.

 

February 10, 2012

The EU’s policy on differentiation: Tackling poverty and global challenges?

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On 2 February, Siân Herbert gave a presentation at a workshop in Copenhagen, discussing the EU’s new policy on ‘differentiation’ (‘Differentiation’ means reassessing aid to middle income countries). The workshop was hosted by Concord Denmark, the Danish NGO platform for EU development work, and attended by a variety of Danish NGOs.

The objective of the workshop was to define a common position on differentiation. The NGOs present were open to the changes proposed by the European Commission, and support revaluating aid to MICs. At the end of the workshop, the decision was taken that Concord Denmark will not engage with the debate regarding the proposed criteria for aid allocation, but will instead focus on where the funds should be redirected. Concord advised that they are engaged in discussions with the European Commission, ahead of the release of a communication on CSOs later this year.

The EU’s policy on differentiation has also been discussed recently by Andy Sumner, Andris Piebalgs and Simon Maxwell.

Siân’s presentation is available here.

 

December 19, 2011

‘Modernising European Development Policy’ at the European Development Days

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On 16 December, EDCSP jointly hosted a panel debate, as part of the European Think-Tanks Group and with French research institute Ferdi, looking at ‘Modernising European Development Policy’, at the European Development Days conference in Warsaw.

To watch a video of the debate, click here.

 

December 8, 2011

Modernising European Development Policy – Event at the European Development Days

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The EDCSP team is now all set for next week’s European Development Days.

 

On 16 December from 14.15 until 16.00, we will jointly host a panel debate, with our European Think-Tank Group partners and with French research institute FERDI. Our debate will look at ‘Modernising European Development Policy’ and boasts a high-level panel including:

  • Andris Piebalgs (European Commissioner for Development),
  •  Baroness Lindsay Northover (UK Government Spokesperson on International Development, House of Lords),
  •  Tertius Zongo (Former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso),
  •  Alain Henry (Head of the Cabinet of Mr. Henri de Raincourt),
  •  Paul Engel (Director of ECDPM),
  •  Patrick Guillaumont (President of FERDI), and
  •  Simon Maxwell (ODI) (chair).

If you are attending the EDDs too, please come along!

 

December 5, 2011

What the next Multi-Annual Financial Framework could mean for development

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On 29 November, EDCSP, as part of the European Think Tanks Group (ETTG), together with Thijs Berman MEP, hosted a roundtable debate in the European Parliament on the development aspects of the proposals on the EU’s Multi-Annual Financial Framework.

To see the ETTG’s presentation, click here.

 

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