Mind the gap between EU development policies and local authorities
Waiting for the first local elections in Tunisia after the revolution, Dalil Djinnit and Giulia Maci reflects on the role of local authorities in sustainable development.
Category: EU MFF
What lessons from the African Peace Facility for supporting peace and security in Africa?
Volker Hauck and Matthias Deneckere (ECDPM) write on how an off-budget European Peace Facility Instrument could support African-led peace initiatives.
The European Union’s next Multiannual Financial Framework: Prospects and Challenges for EU Development Cooperation
Clare Castillejo and Mikaela Gavas (ODI), Mariella Di Ciommo (ECDPM),Meritxell Sayós Monràs (ECDPM), and Niels Keijzer (DIE) present a series of recommendations for a well-resourced and redesigned Heading 4, with a focus on development.
Setting the limits for Global Europe
James Mackie, ECDPM, discusses the EC Communication on the MFF, in view of the upcoming Informal Summit on 23 February 2018
Greening the EU budget
In its Communication on “A new, modern Multiannual Financial Framework for a European Union that delivers efficiently on its priorities
The security-development-migration nexus: avoiding the traps of a holistic policy
The Sustainable Development Goals, the EU Global Strategy and the Consensus on Development present an unprecedented opportunity for a holistic
Looking ahead: challenges and ambitions for EU development policy in 2018
Simon Maxwell scans the horizons of EU development policy in 2018.
Setting a framework for the next EU financial framework
Simon Maxwell in this blog introduces the ETTG perspective on the MFF.
Brexit and EU development cooperation
Brexit will have far-reaching consequences for the UK, the EU and developing countries.
The dynamics of EU budget negotiations for external action – Towards a ‘single’ instrument?
In 2018, at a time when the world and Europe are changing more than in decades, the EU will make