
Got Brexit Done. What Now for International Development?
So, if Brexit is done and the question is “What’s next?,” the answer is, “Start talking and get to work.”

So, if Brexit is done and the question is “What’s next?,” the answer is, “Start talking and get to work.”

The December Communication on the Green New Deal – in the words of the EC President presented as the “man on the moon moment” of the European Union – outlines the steps to shape the European Union climate strategy for the years to come.
In December 2018, the ETTG published a paper comparing emerging Member State positions for the financing of the EU’s external action under its next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), covering the period 2021-2027. Its first observation that negotiations are moving slowly unfortunately still holds today.
Watch the video from the DEVCO Infopoint event in cooperation with ETTG and IDDRI for the Sustainability in the cocoa sector.

Put together the European Commission, European Parliament, African Embassies, the Overseas Development Institute and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles and you will get a very animated debate – like the one European Think Tanks Group organised in Brussels on the 31st of October.
On November 28, 2019 ETTG in cooperation with DEVCO Unit A.1 organised an Infopoint conference which look at 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 ETTG paper for the end of extreme poverty was presented and discussed as a basis of the event.