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Progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has been insufficient, not least because of shocks such as the COVID 19 pandemic and recent wars. The cost of this lack of progress is borne by 'least developed countries' – low-income countries with low indicators of socio-economic development, as defined by the UN. This study reviews the European Union's role in policies that affect poverty in these contexts. It identifies 12 challenges that could be addressed to some extent by further ...

The new EU global health strategy, adopted by the European Commission on 30 November 2022, has been positioned as a crucial element of EU external policy, geopolitical influence and strategic autonomy. However, maintaining the long term commitment necessary for achieving global health ambitions in turbulent times remains challenging. Against this backdrop, in 2023 the Policy Foresight Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service conducted a foresight exercise involving external experts to ...

On 15 November 2023, the European Union (EU) and its Member States signed a new partnership agreement (referred to as the 'Samoa Agreement') with member states of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). The multiple negotiation levels, the coronavirus crisis and difficulties in reaching agreement on sensitive issues, such as migration management and sexual and reproductive health and rights, prevented the new agreement from being finalised by the initial expiry date set ...

With a budget of almost €79.5 billion in 2021 prices, the Global Europe Instrument is the EU's main financing instrument for external action for 2021 to 2027. The European Commission adopted most of the programming documents under the instrument in December 2021, setting out the priorities and budget allocations for EU cooperation with its partner countries and regions. After two years of operations and before the instrument's mid-term evaluation, the Parliament is set to vote in December on a report ...

Het ontwikkelingsbeleid is een van de belangrijkste onderdelen van het buitenlands beleid van de Europese Unie. Het heeft tot doel armoede terug te dringen en uiteindelijk helemaal uit te bannen en het staat centraal in de respons van de EU in het kader van de Agenda 2030 voor duurzame ontwikkeling van de VN (de Agenda 2030). De doelstellingen van het ontwikkelingsbeleid zijn onder meer de bevordering van duurzame groei, de verdediging van de mensenrechten en de democratie, het bereiken van gendergelijkheid ...

De samenwerking van de EU met Afrikaanse landen en de Afrikaanse Unie (AU) is gebaseerd op twee verschillende kaders: a) de partnerschapsovereenkomsten met de staten in Afrika, het Caribisch gebied en de Stille Oceaan (ACS) en b) de gemeenschappelijke strategie Afrika-EU. De partnerschapsovereenkomst die in 2000 in Cotonou (Benin) tussen de EU en de ACS-landen werd ondertekend, vormde meer dan 20 jaar lang de juridische basis voor de politieke, economische en ontwikkelingsdimensie van het partnerschap ...

Africa is the continent most affected by energy poverty, with more than 40 % of its population lacking access to electricity. This is in spite of an extremely high potential for renewable energy generation and an increasing number of fossil fuel developments on the continent. Through its development cooperation programmes, the EU has committed significant funds to reduce energy poverty in its partner countries in Africa. These programmes aim to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 7, which ...

A commitment under the EU Treaties, policy coherence for development requires the EU and its Member States to take into account the objectives of development cooperation in all their external and internal policies that are likely to affect developing countries. Managing competing objectives is a challenge. Better awareness among EU policy-makers and a streamlined action plan could help mitigate trade-offs and improve synergies.

The Commissioner-designate, Wopke Hoekstra, appeared before the European Parliament on 2 October 2023 to answer questions put by MEPs from the Committees on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), Foreign Affairs (AFET), Development (DEVE) and Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). During the hearing, he made a number of commitments which are highlighted in this document. These commitments refer to his portfolio, as described in the mission letter sent to him by Ursula von der Leyen ...