Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
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| 1. Almunia plans to modernise EU state-aid rules | February 2, 2012 |
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State-aid rules should become more ‘efficient' under plan. Joaquín Almunia, the European commissioner for competition, will today announce proposals to modernise the... |
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| 2. Food-aid scheme extended for two years | December 15, 2011 |
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Farm ministers agree to continue a food-aid programme for deprived people in 2012 and 2013. The agreement, reached at a meeting of farm ministers today, will provide... |
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| 3. State aid remains in crisis mode | November 24, 2011 |
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EU state-aid rules have changed rapidly over the past few years, and more change is on the way. In 2008, at the height of the financial crisis that was threatening banks... |
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| 4. EU must not miss chance to make aid more effective | November 17, 2011 |
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The EU is failing to show political leadership at a crucial time. Over recent months, you have on several occasions focused on how the EU is trying to – and could – make... |
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| 5. Backing for food aid programme | November 14, 2011 |
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Member states drop opposition to EU scheme. National governments have agreed to approve plans to provide food aid for poor people in the EU in 2012 and 2013. | |
| 6. A flawed development policy | October 27, 2011 |
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Growth is necessary but not sufficient to reduce poverty and inequality. The EU's new growth-led development policy has many positive points (“Commission aims to attach... |
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| 7. Commission aims to attach more conditions to development aid | October 13, 2011 |
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Funding to governments set to decrease. The European Commission wants to concentrate development aid on fewer recipient countries and to attach more conditions to the aid... |
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| 8. Encounters recounted | July 14, 2011 |
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Mark Malloch-Brown delivers delightful anecdotes, but the juicy bits are missing. How can the “under-regulated hell” created by runaway globalisation be transformed into... |
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| 9. Aid effectiveness | June 23, 2011 |
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Providing aid directly to governments prove more effective than aid for specific projects. Your article “On the trail of ‘disappearing' aid” (16-22 June) fails to... |
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| 10. On the trail of ‘disappearing' aid | June 16, 2011 |
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Austerity measures force fresh look at aid projects. More than half of the European Commission's development aid to the world's poorest countries goes directly to their... | |
| 11. While the dust is settling | May 26, 2011 |
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EU looking at changes to its aid policies as the world's poorest states are increasingly unable to cope. Last week (20 May), the European Union pledged €54.5 million to... |
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| 12. EU steps up preparations for armed aid deliveries to Libya | April 20, 2011 |
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United Nations is reluctant to request such an operation. The European Union's member states have stepped up preparations for an armed humanitarian mission to deliver aid to... | |
| 13. EU under pressure to reassess aid to Egypt | February 10, 2011 |
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Member states want to tighten aid conditions,while Ashton will tell Mubarak that country's aid is at risk. Pressure is growing for the EU to reconsider aid to Egypt worth... |
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| 14. US-EU summits need a new mission | November 18, 2010 |
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How co-operation on humanitarian and development aid could give some purpose to EU-US summits. Enthusiasm for EU-US summits has long been on the wane in Washington, DC. In... | |
| 15. Probe into German bank aid enlarged | November 5, 2010 |
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Fresh state aid to ailing regional bank prompts extension of European Commission investigation. The European Commission today (5 November) said that it has extended its... |
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| 16. EU willing to release aid to Romania | November 1, 2010 |
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Commission gives conditional approval to latest tranche of aid package to Romania. The European Commission today provisionally agreed to release the final €1.2 billion... |
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| 17. Preparing for more dangerous times | October 28, 2010 |
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The European commissioner for international co-operation, humanitarian aid and crisis response sets out her plan to enhance Europe's response to the growing number of... |
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| 18. Commission hopes service will hit all the right notes | October 28, 2010 |
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A warm welcome to the Foreign Policy Instruments Service. A remnant of the European Commission's foreign affairs department (DG Relex) is to live on after the creation of... |
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| 19. Call for co-operation to deal with disasters | October 21, 2010 |
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The Commission wants member states to make more equipment and people available to deal with disasters. The European Commission is to ask member states to make available... |
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| 20. EU must exact a return for more crisis aid | October 7, 2010 |
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Lack of certainty about economic improvement poses a dilemma for the Commission. When, if ever, will Europe emerge from the economic doldrums? It is unlikely that this... |
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