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		<title>New event on 25 June: Tackling global poverty: Where next for Brussels?</title>
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		<title>EDCSP update – May 2012</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Click here to read the EDCSP team’s monthly update for May.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=international-development.eu&#038;blog=12201170&#038;post=1489&#038;subd=internationaldevelopmenteu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A waymark reached. Is the finish line in sight?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Maxwell and Mikaela Gavas analyse the Conclusions regarding the new EU development policy, ‘Agenda for Change’, published by the EU Foreign Affairs Council  in October 2011. They ask what has been gained and lost in the process, and whether it is now possible to see what kind of settlement will be reached when the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=international-development.eu&#038;blog=12201170&#038;post=1483&#038;subd=internationaldevelopmenteu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The future of EU budget support: political conditions, differentiation and coordination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of 2011 the European Commission published a Communication on the future of EU budget support. It recommended that budget support be tied to the political conditions in recipient countries, particularly those related to human rights and democratic values. The European Think-Tanks Group, in collaboration with the Institute of Development and Policy Management, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=international-development.eu&#038;blog=12201170&#038;post=1470&#038;subd=internationaldevelopmenteu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future Approach to EU Budget Support to Third Countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EU Foreign Affairs Council adopted its conclusions regarding the future approach to EU budget support for third countries. Its aim is to strengthen coordination between Member States&#8217;s approaches to budget support, through systematic exchange of information and of expertise in the field.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=international-development.eu&#038;blog=12201170&#038;post=1496&#038;subd=internationaldevelopmenteu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating EU aid: A booming business!</title>
		<link>http://international-development.eu/2012/05/14/evaluating-eu-aid-a-booming-business/</link>
		<comments>http://international-development.eu/2012/05/14/evaluating-eu-aid-a-booming-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mikaela Gavas analyses the two latest reports on EU development aid, the UK’s House of Commons International Development Committee (IDC) inquiry published on 27 April, and the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) peer review published three days earlier. She finds that although the main findings of the evaluations were not dissimilar, the key takeaways from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=international-development.eu&#038;blog=12201170&#038;post=1460&#038;subd=internationaldevelopmenteu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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