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Activists staging an MDGs football action warned that the EU cannot afford to go empty-handed to the United Nations’ MDG summit in September in New York. With only 5 years remaining, Member States must stop blocking progress towards the MDGs and show that they are willing to step forward and score the goals that they agreed back in 2000.
European Member States are missing their official development aid targets and jeopardising global efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals, reveals a new CONCORD report called 'Penalty against Poverty: More and Better EU aid can score Millennium Development Goals’.
According to legal advice from a UK based law firm the current European External Action Service proposal is inconsistent with the Lisbon treaty. A coalition of European development organisations says it could trigger legal action against the proposal by EU High-Representative Catherine Ashton. Cliquez ici pour la déclaration de presse.
Figures released today by the OECD show a reduction in EU overseas development aid in 2009. At current levels the European Union will not meet commitments to provide 0.7% of GNI in aid by 2015 to reach the Millennium Development Goals. The news represents yet another broken promise by EU governments and delivers a further blow to the MDGs, which will be reviewed in New York this September.
Figures released on 17 February by the OECD show that the EU will not meet its 2010 aid targets. The 2010 aid forecast notes the EU is well off track and will miss its collective target of 0.56% of GNI, agreed in 2005 as an interim benchmark towards achieving the UN goal of 0.7% of GNI by 2015 to finance the Millennium Development Goals.
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