DEVELOPMENT-EU:  Conflict Arises Between Short-Term Help and Long-Term Support
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BRUSSELS, Aug 27 (IPS) - The European Union's humanitarian aid policy  does not draw a sufficiently clear distinction between responses  to emergencies and longer-term development assistance, a new  report has concluded.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 26 (IPS) - Leading international civil society groups are   shoring up support to challenge the European Union over the  future of the  bloc's development policy.
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GLASGOW, May 25 (IPS) - That shortcut has been waiting a while, to be    used more often. That governments and other donors in the North  begin   to fund civil society in the South directly, and not  route the money   through northern NGOs.
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THE HAGUE, Jul 4 (IPS) - The European Commission has decided that its  development aid activities should not focus on health and  education, a senior official with the EU executive has admitted.
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Led by Europe, international donors on Monday pledged $7.4 billion over three years to help Palestinians as new peace talks begin with Israel, yet old Mideast fights over disputed land and freedom of movement shadowed the largest show of support for the Palestinians in more than a decade.
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PRAGUE, Nov 14 (IPS) - Nearly six months without a stable government could  cause a serious institutional crisis in many European countries,  but for most Czechs life goes on as usual as they turn their  backs to political squabbling.
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Developing countries have criticised the IMF and World Bank for failing to give more decision-making power to smaller nations. Ministers from the Group of 24 (G24) developing countries made their statement
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WINDHOEK, February 15  (IPS) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC)  should engage in serious discussions to prevent the economic  partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union from  destroying its regional integration efforts.
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Countries taking part in a conference on Iraq differ on how to assist the nation but strongly support the interim government&#39;s
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European governments should focus more of their efforts on boosting their countries' technological prowess by funding large - oenational champions - rather than small companies whose expansion possibilities are ...
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GLASGOW, May 26 (IPS) - When, came the question from a Ugandan   delegate  at a Civicus world assembly meeting in Glasgow, will the West    ever stop giving aid on unequal terms? "We are unequal by  the fact   that, speaking as a donor, we are providing the  funds," said   Jan-Petter Holtedahl from the civil society  department at the   Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 22  (IPS) - The EU has published 15 case studies to show that  trade for development is "not an  empty slogan used in  Brussels", but is "showing some excellent results on the   ground."
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BRUSSELS, Feb 16 (IPS) - French and German proposals to tax airline fuel for  development funding may face tough opposition at a meeting of  European Union ministers later this week.
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THE HAGUE, Sep 29  (IPS) - The EU aid package is a large one, but packed also  with paternalism and claims to  domination, development experts  said at the end of an aid conference.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 14 (IPS) - Some of the richest states European Union are doing  little to contribute to the Millennium Development Goals, says a  new report by three leading development groups.
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The deployment of European troops to Lebanon and Afghanistan comes under the spotlight and there are mixed views on how the EU should deal with a national unity government in the Palestinian territories. In Austria and Germany, papers are dismayed at a fall in the number of students receiving university degrees.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 16 (IPS) - An excessive number of aid donors is hampering  efforts to make development assistance more effective, a new  study has found.