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This page presents the ETTG’s most recent Blogs. Previous Blogs can be perused below or may be filtered by clicking on the topic labels on your right.

May 27, 2019 ETTG / Blogs / EU MFF

Dear new member of the European Parliament…

The new European Parliament will convene in Strasbourg in the first week of July. As a newly- or re-elected member

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May 3, 2019 ETTG / Blogs

Ten Questions for prospective MEPs

It may one day be the case that European Parliament elections are fought on a truly pan-territorial basis, with parties,

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February 27, 2019 DIE / Blogs / Partnerships

Germany’s new responsibility in the EU’s Africa policy post Brexit

All eyes are on London, and specifically the House of Commons, right now. Political dynamics in Brussels fundamentally changed right

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February 6, 2019 IDDRI / Blogs / SDGs

Towards a sustainable Europe in 2030? An analysis of the European Commission’s Reflection Paper

Elisabeth Hege analyses the Reflection Paper of the European Commission, published last January 30.

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January 18, 2019 DIE / ETTG / Blogs / SDGs / EU MFF

The Peer Review of EU aid: a challenge from the OECD

Niels Keijzer and Simon Maxwell analyse the peer review of EU aid, highlighting six main issues on EU development finance.

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January 7, 2019 ETTG / Blogs

2019 European Aid Quiz

You think you know about EU Aid? Take the New Year Quiz and check your score.

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December 10, 2018 ETTG / Blogs

EU migration policy: (how) can the next European Commission do better?

Irene Schöfberger and Niels Keijzer analyze three contradictions in the EU migration policy asking if and how the new European Commission can do better.

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November 19, 2018 ETTG / Blogs / SDGs

The future of development cooperation: Six ways the EU can innovate

Innovation as a new way to do the same things, with available tools. Giulia Maci and Riccardo Sgaramella look back at the Conference ” Innovation in development: The future of EU international cooperation”.

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November 16, 2018 ETTG / Blogs / SDGs / Partnerships

Highlights from the Public Debate, 17 October 2018

In the public debate of 17 October last, some important points were highlighted in relation to future European international cooperation.

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October 29, 2018 ETTG / Blogs

Information is everything: how private actors are shifting Kenya’s household energy landscape

In this blog, Leo Roberts (ODI), stresses the importance of the private sector in shifting the energy landscape in African countries. The analysis focuses on Kenya.

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  • Strengthening the digital partnership between Africa and Europe

    Digitalisation is the use of digital technologies and digitised data in enterprises and organisations, with far-reaching implications for how work gets done and how customers engage and interact with operations. There can be no doubt that digitalisation is transforming business models, revolutionising societies and creating new revenue streams around the globe. Now, more than ever, we need to understand and harness the power of digitalisation, to further the global common good.

    Strengthening the digital partnership between Africa and Europe
  • Advancing EU-Africa cooperation in light of the African Continental Free Trade Area

    The current policy brief lays out the obstacles to both AfCFTA implementation and realisation of its full economic potential. It also explores how the EU can engage in providing targeted support and how to strengthen AfCFTA-related cooperation between Africa and the EU. The analysis and recommendations draw on a review of the literature and policy documents by the German Development Institute (DIE), the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) and the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), as well as two online expert seminars on 17 and 24 June 2020.

    Advancing EU-Africa cooperation in light of the African Continental Free Trade Area
  • European fear of ‘missing out’ and narratives on China in Africa

    The ETTG note debunks some of the dominant myths surrounding Chinese engagement in Africa and unpacks the evolving relationship between China and the African continent. It starts by looking closer at common European perceptions about China-Africa relations. It then provides a brief sketch of the historical underpinnings of China’s engagement in Africa. Afterwards, it looks at how the notion of competition with rising global powers like China has influenced the EU’s relations with African partners.

    European fear of ‘missing out’ and narratives on China in Africa
  • EU humanitarian aid: Caught between nexus and independence

    This brief analyses current issues in the EU’s humanitarian aid and makes recommendations for responding to the challenges ahead. Specifically, it addresses the tensions between the Commission’s ambition to be a geopolitical actor and to better respond to multidimensional crises through a ‘nexus approach’ and the strong needs-based humanitarian assistance the EU provides. The analysis is based on a structured review of academic and policy sources, complemented by interviews with Brussels-based humanitarian aid policymakers.

    EU humanitarian aid: Caught between nexus and independence
  • How can the European Union help developing countries address the socioeconomic impacts of the coronavirus crisis?

    With the global economy going into a steep recession, developing countries are facing considerable financing shortfalls. Confronted with its most severe crisis since WWII, Europe needs to adopt a global perspective, as it cannot successfully address it in isolation. There is a moral imperative to help vulnerable people in distress and foster global solidarity to prevent catastrophic outcomes.

    How can the European Union help developing countries address the socioeconomic impacts of the coronavirus crisis?
  • Harnessing EU external cooperation to boost ambitious and coherent climate action

    In this paper, researchers from the European Think Tanks Group propose a set of actions the EU should consider to raise its climate ambition and exert credible climate leadership in a challenging global context.

    Harnessing EU external cooperation to boost ambitious and coherent climate action
  • An Agenda for Europe in the World

    In this ‘Agenda for Europe in the World’, we share concrete proposals for the new EU leadership, focusing on nine key domains where the EU can make a difference.

  • Financing human development and the ending of extreme poverty in Africa

    This briefing note from Marcus Manuel (ODI) and Stephanie Manea (ODI) draws on previous ODI research to examine how the EU could play a more effective role in ending extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by better targeting support for human development in the poorest countries.

  • The EU Budget for the future: views from Italy

    After the recent European elections in Italy, a populist leadership is set to be the driver of the Italian European agenda for the next months. These populist forces are destined to play a marginal role in the negotiations over the new Commission as well as the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2017. The growing role of Lega within the Government is expected to have a deep impact on the MFF, with agriculture, cohesion funds, migration and border management likely to become the real priorities for Italy at the expense of the development cooperation and humanitarian assistance. Key messages  • During the negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027, the Italian anti-establishment and populist parties will prioritise funding for agriculture, social cohesion, migration, and border management at the expense of genuine development cooperation and humanitarian assistance.• The Italian government has a weak, trivial and isolated position in Europe. The recent elections to the European Parliament have produced a more fragmented political spectrum with the Lega becoming the leading party in the country. This will have an important impact, not only internally, but also at the European level. It seems likely that Lega will propose the new Commissioner from Italy, with a smaller role to be played by the Five Stars Movement. However, the two leading parties appear already isolated in the next European Parliament.• The proposal of the new MFF significantly increases the resources allocated for migration and border management. Italy vocally supports this view and advocates for an even stronger commitment, by doubling the budget for long-term focus on ‘root causes’ within the neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) component of Heading VI.• Italy would like to see Africa getting a greater proportion of NDICI funds. This is due not only to historical relations with the Mediterranean region and North Africa, but also as a result of the assumption than more development aid to Africa will reduce the migration fluxes, despite the literature showing otherwise.• The Italian and European NGO community criticise the so called “Junckerizarion of MFF”, or using the MFF as the catalyst to attract private investments. The community says it risks subsidising international companies that do not comply with clear and binding accountability and transparency rules. Read the full paper here. Authors: Daniele Fattibene (IAI) and Bernardo Venturi (IAI).Photo courtesy of Lukasz Radziejewski via Flickr.  

  • Feeding Cities. Putting food on the urban planning agenda

    Daniele Fattibene (IAI), Giulia Maci (ECDPM) and Guido Santini (FAO) identify innovative approaches to better integrate food into urban planning.