The vast majority of Europeans, and especially Italians, are in favour of their country investing in development aid outside of EU borders, according to a survey published by the French Development Agency (AFD) on Tuesday (14 May).
Turkey's government is scrambling to prove it has fulfilled promises to re-home victims of a devastating earthquake from February 2023. But a year on, survivors are still in temporary housing, facing the prospect of having to buy their potential new homes.
As Germany released a new regional development strategy in Asia, emphasising sustainability and gender equity, its effectiveness in channelling Berlin’s foreign policy ambitions remains dubious, an expert told Euractiv.
The EU should re-write its rules on aid that currently prevent it from providing funds to organisations that are not based in the EU, leading aid charity Caritas has urged.
The European Commission on Tuesday (21 November) said its review, ordered after the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, found no misuse of EU development funds for Palestine so far and development aid could continue, but called for stricter controls going forward.
The EU this week finally sealed an agreement on a new treaty that will govern relations with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) community, but the refusal of 35 of the 79 ACP states to sign it has cast a shadow over its merits.
The European Commission launched the worldwide forum of its flagship foreign infrastructure investment scheme, the Global Gateway, on Wednesday (25 October) - just one week after China held its own forum to celebrate the successes of its own scheme.
EU finance ministers are leading the pushback against the campaign for a UN tax convention to make rules to tackle corporate tax evasion and illicit financial flows.
MOMBASA, KENYA - The East African harbour is a gateway for the continent toward the rest of the world. Its strategic location attracts many investors. The European Union is one of them, next to Beijing.
After the recent Niger coup, EU foreign and defence ministers this week are expected to discuss a strategy to deal with the situation and reassess the bloc's approach to the Sahel region, according to an internal memo seen by EURACTIV.
Heads of states and civil society representatives agreed a joint way forward to “fundamentally reform” the international development framework on Friday (23 June) in Paris, but failed to make hoped-for headways on international taxation.
The Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris on Thursday and Friday (22-23 June) could strengthen France's "green diplomacy" and position President Emmanuel Macron as a key player when it comes to financing international development aid.
Paris will be hosting a one-of-a-kind ‘Summit for a New Global Financing Pact’ on 22-23 June, in an effort to secure financing for Global South development aid and climate transition, and enshrine the need for a review of multilateral institutions.
World leaders will gather in Paris this week with ambitions to reimagine global financing for a new era shaped by climate change, as a cascade of crises swamps debt-burdened countries.
Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions, according to three sources, cybersecurity research reports and Reuters' own analysis of technical data related to the hackings.
Germany supports the African Union's bid to get a seat at the G20 group of large economies, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on 4 May, as the West seeks to woo the continent away from growing rivals like China.
Uganda's parliament on Tuesday (2 May) passed one of the world's strictest anti-LGBTQ bills mostly unchanged, including long jail terms and the death penalty, after President Yoweri Museveni requested some parts of the original legislation be toned down.
EU countries have become the main recipients of their own development aid, statistics published on Wednesday (12 April) have revealed.
China and Russia are bolstering their presence in Africa to tap its rich natural resources, analysts say, amid grave warnings from UN agencies the world's poorest countries face accumulating crippling debts.
The international community needs to rapidly agree on a new debt relief programme worth $148 billion by 2029 to avoid a new debt crisis, the United Nations has argued ahead of a key G20 summit on international finance.
Protests in Stockholm on 21 January against Turkey and NATO, including the burning of a copy of the Koran, heightened tensions with Turkey at a time when the Nordic country needs Ankara's backing to gain entry to the military alliance.
The combination of drought, climate change and donor fatigue have resulted in a 'foreseeable' food crisis in Eastern Africa that has left millions at risk of famine, panellists told an event organised by EURACTIV last week.
The war in Ukraine has pushed the number of refugees across the world to more than 100 million, according to a new report published on Thursday (16 June).
A small charity broke ground this year on a clinic in northern Burkina Faso to care for thousands of women and children who have fled Islamist insurgents wreaking havoc along the fringes of the Sahara.
