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Briefing - European Peace Facility – For Ukraine, but not only - 28-04-2025

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:05:53 GMT

The European Peace Facility (EPF) was created in March 2021 as a funding instrument aimed at enhancing the EU's ability to prevent conflicts, build and preserve peace, and strengthen international security and stability. The EPF rests on two pillars. The first is to fund EU military operations and missions under the common foreign and security policy. The second is to provide assistance to countries in the EU's eastern neighbourhood, the Middle East and Africa to strengthen security in their respective regions. Following Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU started using the EPF to rapidly deliver military aid to Ukraine. This support was provided alongside continued assistance to the EU's eastern neighbourhood, as well as to partners in the Middle East and Africa. The EPF has a total financial ceiling of more than €17 billion for the 2021-2027 period. As the facility is an off-budget instrument, EU Member States contribute directly to it, based on the gross national income key. Currently, the EPF lacks fresh resources to continue supporting Ukraine in facing the war. Furthermore, since March 2023, Hungary has refused to mobilise EPF funds in military aid to Ukraine. In line with the sanctions imposed on Russia in 2022, Russian assets held in EU banks were frozen. In May 2024, the Council of the EU allocated 90 % of the 'windfall' (extraordinary) profits from these frozen assets to the EPF. A first transfer of €1.5 billion from these profits to Ukraine took place in mid-2024. A second payment, possibly amounting to €2 billion, is expected in spring 2025. Given Hungary's veto, the EU is looking for more reliable ways to continue assistance to Ukraine than by means of the windfall profits from the Russian assets channelled through the EPF. On 24 October 2024, the EU created the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism (ULCM) and issued an exceptional macro-financial assistance loan of €18.1 billion, the EU's part of an EU-G7 syndicated loan to Ukraine totalling €45 billion. Starting after March 2025, 95 % of the windfall profits from the Russian assets held in EU banks will be allocated to the EU budget and channelled through the ULCM to Ukraine. The remaining 5 % will be allocated to the EPF. Beyond Ukraine, for which the EPF-funded approved military support amounts to approximately €10.6 billion, the EPF has an available budget of €6.4 billion to fund, until 2027, both the common costs of EU military missions and operations abroad – including its military assistance mission in support of Ukraine – and assistance measures for the armed forces of partner countries.

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Briefing - Understanding the triple nexus: The challenges of creating synergies between humanitarian, development and security policies - 07-04-2025

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:37:47 GMT

Hosting a substantial portion of the world's poor and displaced populations, fragile countries and territories ('fragile contexts') are characterised by weak governance and vulnerability to crises, and often prone to conflict. This creates challenges for identifying complex power structures, accessing the persons most in need and implementing long-standing development solutions. In these contexts, the UN and OECD pushed for a shift towards integrated, context-sensitive responses that consider humanitarian, development, and peace dimensions simultaneously: the 'HDP Nexus' or 'Triple Nexus'. The EU, with its extensive competences across the three pillars of the Nexus, has adopted a comprehensive Triple Nexus approach, including coordinated strategies, shared financing, and partnerships with local and international stakeholders. However, implementing the Triple Nexus is complex, with organisational, financial, and mandate-related hurdles. Balancing immediate humanitarian needs with long-term development and peace goals often results in tensions. Additionally, the approach necessitates conflict-sensitive actions and ethical considerations, particularly in regions with questionable government legitimacy. Furthermore, the EU's migration, trade, and climate policies, which affect human movements, trade dynamics, and environmental strategies, add layers of complexity to the Nexus efforts. �Ϸ��վ supports the Triple Nexus, calling for enhanced collaboration and a clear policy framework. It stresses a holistic approach to addressing the root causes of crises in fragile contexts, recognising the interconnectedness of issues like conflict, climate change, migration, and poverty.

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Briefing - �Ϸ��վ in EU external action - 01-04-2025

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Based on its Treaties, the European Union (EU) has developed a multifaceted external action policy, and is seen as an important actor far beyond its borders. Through its institutions and Member States, the EU is active in international trade, humanitarian assistance, economic, financial, and technical and development cooperation, as well as through its common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and common security and defence policy (CSDP). Increasingly, the external dimension of internal EU policies has also grown, notably in the economic, climate, energy, migration and digital fields. The role of the European �Ϸ��վ in the EU's external action has increased significantly since the 1990s, and especially after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon (2009). Although �Ϸ��վ's powers remain relatively limited compared to other EU institutions involved in external action, especially with regard to CFSP and CSDP decision-making (which remain mostly intergovernmental), it nevertheless has considerable legislative, budgetary, agenda-setting and soft powers. Several of �Ϸ��վ's powers cut across all policy areas. Notably, it proactively supports multilateralism and conducts extensive parliamentary diplomacy. �Ϸ��վ contributes to policy framing through its debates, resolutions, recommendations, own-initiative reports and statements. It holds hearings, workshops, debates and organises missions. Members of the �Ϸ��վ exercise scrutiny of the executive, by holding hearings of and posing questions to the European Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU's High Representative and the Council. �Ϸ��վ co-legislates on financing the EU's external action and controls EU institutions' expenditure, including the EEAS, through the discharge procedure. The �Ϸ��վ acts on an equal footing with the Council when adopting numerous acts in the fields of trade, development and humanitarian aid, and often external dimensions of internal policies. Since 2009, �Ϸ��վ's consent to legally binding international agreements is mandated by the Treaties.

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Проучване - The EU Aid Strategy: A Gateway to Human Development? - 28-03-2025

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 22:00:00 GMT

This paper examines the role and impact of Official Development Assistance (ODA) on human development outcomes, focusing on health, education and extreme poverty eradication. The aim is to consolidate existing knowledge on how ODA advances internationally agreed targets and to evaluate current trends in European Union (EU) development policy from the perspective of its contribution to human development. The paper finds that the current EU emphasis on resource mobilisation and private sector engagement differs from traditional aid modalities, which have effectively contributed to education and health outcomes, as well as poverty reduction. These traditional modalities should be sustained and expanded to address pending human development targets, particularly in Least Developed Countries. While the Global Gateway might be a good strategy for climate action and infrastructure development, a complementary strategy is required to balance funding and political attention towards poverty eradication, the primary goal of EU development policy, which risks being overshadowed by other aspects of the sustainable development agenda.

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Накратко - Cuts in US development assistance - 21-03-2025

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:19:09 GMT

On 20 January 2025, President Trump halted all US foreign aid pending a review. By 10 March, 83 % of USAID programmes had been terminated, creating a US$60 billion funding gap that neither Team Europe – the EU and its Member States collectively – nor other donors can fill, amid declining global official development assistance (ODA). This infographic uses OECD Development Assistant Committee (DAC) data on 2023 ODA commitments and disbursements. Commitments are pledged funds reflecting donor priorities, while disbursements show actual transfers, tracked yearly. Since disbursements often span multiple years, annual payments may stem from past commitments. Commitments are recorded in full when made, while disbursements track the timing of aid.

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Briefing - Commitments made at the confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate 2024-2029 - 10-01-2025

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Commitments made at the confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate 2024-2029

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Проучване - European Commission follow-up to European �Ϸ��վ requests 2022–2024 - 05-11-2024

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

This is the third edition of a study on the European Commission's follow-up to European �Ϸ��վ requests as expressed in non-legislative resolutions based either on ordinary own-initiative reports (INIs) or on Article 225 TFEU legislative-initiative reports (INLs). Analysing the Commission's replies in formal follow-up documents (for INIs) and in letters in reply to legislative-initiative reports (INL), this joint DG PRES and DG EPRS project seeks to support the European �Ϸ��վ's scrutiny power over the Commission and to facilitate the monitoring of the European Commission's follow-up to parliamentary resolutions. The study analyses how and to what extent the Commission has reacted to �Ϸ��վ resolutions in its follow-up documents, and whether it fulfilled the commitments it made in those documents.

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Задълбочен анализ - IMF Lending to Ukraine: State of Play and the Road Ahead - 30-10-2024

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:00:00 GMT

This paper provides an overview of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s lending to Ukraine, particularly focusing on the IMF response to the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since February 2022, given the challenging macroeconomic circumstances. If further analyses the key elements of the IMF’ Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme for Ukraine, including the evolution of core assumptions, risks, fiscal sustainability and conditionality.

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Briefing - Multilateral development banks: State of play and reform proposals - 23-10-2024

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are supranational financial institutions that support developing countries to help them achieve various goals. While the support is primarily financial, many MDBs have accumulated a good deal of experience, which allows them to propose non financial services too, such as policy advice, capacity building, technical assistance and training. MDBs are a key element in the multilateral development system. This wide-ranging remit, as well as the fact that MDBs are able to pursue public policy goals at minimal fiscal cost to member governments, explains the success of these institutions over the past 80 years, as well as their growing number: today, there are more than 20 MDBs around the world. Although their members, clients and goals may differ, MDBs share common characteristics, play similar roles, and conform broadly to the same institutional model. In the past decade, MDBs have been facing several challenges, both from within (legacy MDBs competing for relevance with other, newer MDBs) and outside their system (new needs and goals, such as contributing to the fight against climate change). Several countries, non-governmental organisations and think tanks have called for these banks to change in order to adapt to this new environment. Important discussions have been taking place among stakeholders. While discussions are ongoing, several MDBs are committed to reform.

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Briefing - Confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate: Jozef Síkela – International Partnerships - 15-10-2024

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:47:26 GMT

Jozef Síkela (Mayors and Independents Party, STAN) affiliated to the European People's Party (EPP), has served as the Czech minister for industry and trade since December 2021. In this position, his focus has been on reducing his country's reliance on Russian gas, developing the use of renewable energy sources and securing stakes in German and Dutch liquefied natural gas (LNG). Síkela has served in various banks, notably as the head of the Slovak Savings Bank and as board member of the Austrian Erste Group Bank. Born in 1967 in Rokycany, Czechia, Síkela studied foreign trade economics at the Prague University of Economics and Business.

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Briefing - Confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate: Hadja Lahbib – Preparedness and Crisis Management; Equality - 15-10-2024

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:20:23 GMT

Hadja Lahbib a member of the Mouvement reformateur (MR) party, which sits with the Renew Europe group in the European �Ϸ��վ, has been serving as Belgian minister for foreign affairs, European affairs and foreign trade, and federal cultural institutions since 2022. She was elected as a member of the �Ϸ��վ of the Brussels Capital Region in 2024 but is currently on leave to fulfil her ministerial duties. Before joining the Belgian government, she co-led the Brussels bid for the title of European Capital of Culture 2030. Born in Belgium in 1970 to a family of Algerian Kabyle origin, Lahbib obtained a master's degree in journalism and communication from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She then worked as a journalist and presenter for Belgium's French-speaking public broadcasting company and other broadcasters, where she gained international experience in covering conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. She produced several documentaries to highlight injustices, especially those against women in Afghanistan, Kenya and Belgium.

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Накратко - Outcome of the Summit of the Future: Transforming global governance to build peace, promote human rights and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals - 01-10-2024

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:31:13 GMT

On 22-23 September 2024, world leaders, including �Ϸ��վ's President Roberta Metsola, convened at the United Nations for a 'Summit of the Future'. The UN Secretary-General presented the summit as a 'once-in-a-generation' opportunity to revive multilateral cooperation to address current and future global challenges. �Ϸ��վ's ad-hoc delegation welcomed the 'Pact for the Future' endorsed at the summit. The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission (HR/VP) is due to report back to Members in a plenary statement on the outcome of the summit.

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Briefing - Summit of the Future: Focusing on inter-generational responsibility in UN action - 26-09-2024

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

The United Nations Summit of the Future took place in New York from 22 to 23 September 2024 in the absence of the leaders of the five UN Security Council permanent members. The focus was on revitalising multilateralism and adapting UN policies to 'the needs and interests' of current and future generations. In a sign of continuity and commitment to agreed targets, the UN members reaffirmed their commitment to the implementation of Agenda 2030 and its 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs). The summit adopted a 'Pact for the Future', a 'Global Digital Compact' and a 'Declaration on Future Generations', despite Russia's last-minute attempts to derail the process. These three 'soft law' milestone agreements place inter-generational responsibility (a key commitment in the 1945 UN Charter) and long-term thinking at the core of the UN's future action and policies. Intense inter-governmental negotiations led by three pairs of co-facilitators (Germany and Namibia for the pact, Sweden and Zambia for the compact and the Netherlands and Jamaica for the declaration) with input from stakeholders including the EU, preceded the summit. This allowed buy-in from both developing and developed countries, ultimately building the widest possible consensus on the pact. The pact now includes 56 actions intended to strengthen the inter-generational bond, anticipate risk and futureproof policies at the UN, regional and national level. Futureproofing policies, an EU priority, made it into the pact. In time, this could lead to increased synergies between the EU and the UN, as it begins to implement the pact. In the run-up to the summit, UN members made progress on institutional reform and bolder language was included on Security Council reform. Institutional reform remains a key long-term challenge, impacting the UN's ability to deliver on its core mission: world-wide development, poverty eradication and peace and stability.

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Проучване - Research for PECH Committee - The EU oceans and fisheries policy - Latest developments and future challenges - 13-09-2024

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

This study provides an overview of the Common Fisheries Policy and other EU policies in relation to Fisheries, Aquaculture, the Blue Economy and International Ocean Governance. The current and future challenges facing these are described. Strengths and weaknesses of EU policy in addressing these challenges are assessed, leading to the authors making a range of specific policy recommendations.

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Briefing - �Ϸ��վ and the United Nations - 03-09-2024

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

The EU has constantly affirmed its support for multilateralism, and in particular for the United Nations (UN), with which it shares core values. Article 21 of the Treaty on European Union puts respect for the principles of the UN Charter among the guiding principles of EU action on the international scene. The EU and its Member States contribute one third to the total UN budget. Although the EU's status within the UN system varies (from full member to simple observer), the EU is the regional organisation having gained the strongest voice in the UN. The EU supports the reform agenda initiated by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. �Ϸ��վ is a strong supporter of rules-based multilateralism. It follows the EU's activity in the UN closely, and regularly adopts recommendations to the Council of the EU on the priorities to be pursued by the EU at the UN General Assembly, and at major multilateral conferences such as the UN climate change conference. �Ϸ��վ also adopts resolutions on the implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. It encourages cooperation between the EU – together with its Member States – and the UN, in particular on humanitarian aid, development assistance, peace operations and crisis management. As regards specific bodies and agencies, �Ϸ��վ regularly reiterates its strong support for the International Criminal Court, and deplores the abuse of multilateral institutions, in particular by regimes seeking to neutralise human rights mechanisms within the UN Human Rights Council. �Ϸ��վ's relevant committees maintain relations with UN bodies and agencies. The committees invite UN representatives and experts to exchanges of views and hearings at the European �Ϸ��վ, and send delegations to key meetings.

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Briefing - Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3): The EU's role in promoting health and well-being for all - 02-09-2024

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Good health and well-being is a key indicator and a precondition for sustainable development, allowing people to enjoy fulfilling lives, receive education and be productive members of society. In contrast, the burden of disease has high economic, social and individual costs. Therefore, achieving the highest attainable level of health is of interest for all. However, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing crises, progress towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) 3 ('ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages') is off track globally, and many of its targets may not be achieved by 2030. Moreover, progress varies significantly across regions, with some of them lagging behind. The European Union (EU) is committed to implementing the SDGs, including SDG 3, both internally and globally. Within the EU, measures pertaining to SDG 3 focus on achieving more resilient, accessible and inclusive health systems; improving reproductive, maternal and child health; ending major communicable disease epidemics; and reducing non-communicable and mental disorders. They also focus on lowering behavioural and environmental health risk factors. Globally, in line with its 2022 global health strategy, the EU contributes to the attainment of SDG 3 objectives through action at global, regional and bilateral level. A vocal supporter of and major financial contributor to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the EU cooperates with the WHO to deliver universal health coverage worldwide, improve health outcomes in emergencies and enhance global health security, to give some examples. The EU also supports its African and other partners with the projects enabled through the EU's Global Gateway and through its Team Europe approach, where feasible. �Ϸ��վ is a committed supporter of stronger EU action on health, both internally and outside the EU. It has called regularly for a comprehensive and integrated approach to achieve a high level of health and well-being.

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Задълбочен анализ - Reform of the global financial architecture in response to global challenges. How to restore debt sustainability and achieve SDGs? - 14-06-2024

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals and climate targets in the face of rising debt levels requires financial resources which the current Global Financial Architecture (GFA) is failing to meet. In this context, calls for reforming the GFA have taken both front and centre stage. These calls are not just for raising more finance, but for making the GFA more equitable, just and responsive to crises by addressing longstanding limitations affecting most countries worldwide. This analysis uses desktop research and qualitative interviews with representatives of global and regional multilateral development banks (MDBs), think tanks and civil society organisations to document calls for reforms and various stakeholders’ positions. It can be seen that reform initiatives and preferences within the Bretton Woods institutions (the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) and MDBs fashioned after them are relatively modest, evolutionary and likely to maintain the status quo that mostly privileges GFA architects and majority stakeholders. By comparison, think tanks, civil society organisations and Global South leaders see the current GFA as rooted in colonialism and the need for fundamental reforms, including the possibility of new and alternative institutions. Hence, it is recommended here that influential stakeholders such as the EU and its Member States move their leadership position from talk-based to action-based by reorienting the EU’s financial architecture to play a greater role in reforming the current GFA. While incremental changes are popular and pragmatic, they cannot merely be undertaken on an ad hoc basis. They must be accompanied by fundamental reforms, especially those leading to better debt resolution mechanisms and inclusive governance.

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Briefing - International Agreements in Progress - The Samoa Agreement with African, Caribbean and Pacific States - 13-06-2024

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

On 10 April 2024, the European �Ϸ��վ gave its consent to the conclusion of a new partnership agreement between the EU, its Member States and member states of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). The 15 November 2023 signing ceremony took place in Apia, capital of the Pacific island country of Samoa. The agreement is therefore referred to as the 'Samoa Agreement'. Owing to the multiple negotiation levels, the COVID-19 crisis and difficulties in agreeing sensitive issues, such as migration management and sexual and reproductive health and rights, it took more than two years before the negotiators initialled the text of the renewed partnership agreement in April 2021. It then took two more years for the EU Member States to resolve dissenting views before signing. The agreement has provisionally applied to its signatories since January 2024. Further legal procedures are required before it can enter fully into force, notably ratification by at least two thirds (53) of OACPS members. The Samoa Agreement is based on six key priorities: human rights, democracy and governance; peace and security; human and social development; inclusive, sustainable economic growth and development; environmental sustainability and climate change; and migration and mobility. The EU and the OACPS agreed on the principle of a common foundation complemented by three regional protocols (for African, Caribbean and Pacific OACPS members respectively). �Ϸ��վ succeeded in maintaining the Joint �Ϸ��վary Assembly. The new partnership's institutional set-up also includes a joint parliamentary assembly for each regional level. This is the 11th edition of this briefing. To view earlier editions, see the EPRS blog.

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Накратко - EU-Angola Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement - 10-06-2024

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

On 4 March 2024, the Council adopted a decision to conclude the first-ever sustainable investment facilitation agreement between the EU and a third country, Angola. The aim is to make investment easier and more sustainable by promoting transparency, streamlining procedures and encouraging responsible business practices.

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Briefing - Ukraine Plan conditionality: What is expected and how does it compare with similar programmes? - 05-06-2024

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

This paper outlines the main elements related to conditionality included in the Ukraine Plan, and compares it with the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s approach to conditionality, in particular with respect to the group of Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCS) that currently includes Ukraine.

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Briefing - Confronting debt, climate change and poverty: Global financial architecture reform and the fiscal space of developing countries - 04-06-2024

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 22:00:00 GMT

A workshop held on 19 March 2024 addressed issues affecting developing countries’ economic situation, and how it is shaped by policies and global governance. Key subjects include the International Monetary Fund and its policies, taxes and sovereign debt. Several experts addressed different facets of the subject to answer questions for the Committee on Development (DEVE): What aspects of the current system are being criticised? What are the proposals for change? And what can the EU and the European �Ϸ��վ do to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? This publication includes three of the four papers that were presented during the workshop. The first paper brings insights about policies with the potential to reduce poverty and inequality (SDG1 and SDG10). The second and third briefings (explanatory ‘primers’) clarify key elements of the public discussion: the concept of fiscal space of developing countries and the debate over IMF Special Drawing Rights. The fourth paper, published separately, provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate about the reform of the global financial architecture, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

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Накратко - Will the EU help build a cobalt refinery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? - 03-06-2024

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Most of the world's cobalt, a strategic raw material for the EU, is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is then shipped to China for processing before being used, for instance, in batteries and electric vehicles (EVs). This creates inefficiencies, extra emissions and, above all, crucial critical raw material and green sector dependencies on China. The DRC wants to move up the battery supply chain. A 2021 Bloomberg study shows that building a Congolese processing plant to produce lithium-ion battery precursors would be vastly cheaper than constructing one in the US, China or Europe. A Global Gateway partnership framework with the DRC is in place to help develop its critical raw material value chains. Could EU partners reduce critical raw material and green transition dependencies on China by building a Global Gateway cobalt processing plant in the DRC?

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Информационни фишове за ЕC - Африка - 30-05-2024

Sun, 26 May 2019 22:00:00 GMT

Сътрудничеството на ЕС с африканските държави и Африканския съюз (АС) се основава на две отделни рамки: а) споразуменията за партньорство с държавите от Африка, Карибите и Тихоокеанския басейн (АКТБ) и б) съвместната стратегия Африка—ЕС. Споразумението от Котону, което беше подписано през 2000 г. между ЕС и държавите от АКТБ и което представляваше правната основа на политическите, икономическите и свързаните с развитието измерения на партньорството в продължение на повече от 20 години, бе заменено с изцяло ново споразумение, подписано в Апия, Самоа на 15 ноември 2023 г. Първоначално срокът на действие на Споразумението от Котону трябваше да изтече в края на 2020 г., но беше удължаван неколкократно, последно до декември 2023 г., тъй като подписването на ново споразумение, което да модернизира и подобри партньорството, беше блокирано в Съвета в продължение на няколко години. Съвместната стратегия Африка—ЕС се изпълнява чрез многогодишни пътни карти и планове за действие, приемани на всяка среща на върха Африка—ЕС. На последната среща на върха ЕС—АС, състояла се през февруари 2022 г. в Брюксел, лидерите на ЕС и Африка постигнаха съгласие за обща визия за подновено партньорство, основано на солидарност, сигурност, мир, устойчиво развитие и споделен просперитет. ЕС е най-значимият дарител на официални помощи за развитие за Африка, които се финансират основно от общия бюджет на ЕС посредством Инструмента за съседство, сътрудничество за развитие и международно сътрудничество (ИССРМС) — Глобална Европа.

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Задълбочен анализ - Opportunities and challenges of the green transition for pastoralism and indigenous people in Africa - 29-05-2024

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

The green transition aims at creating a sustainable and carbon-neutral economic system. Key to this transition is the change from fossil fuel based energy production and mobility to carbon emission free technologies. The transition also entails a switch to more sustainable land-use practices, including sustainable agriculture. The EU has committed itself to the green transition and is supporting its partners in their paths to sustainable economies through development cooperation. However, large renewable energy projects as well as new land-use plans that are considered and labelled as part of the green transition, may be at odds with traditional forms of land-use. Pastoralist people have traditionally grazed their herds on more than half of Africa’s land and have already lost access to some of these lands through green energy, new sustainable land-use plans and tourism projects. The workshop provided an overview of the challenges and opportunities pastoralists face through green transition projects in Africa. Based on the analysis of cases from Kenya and Tanzania, the workshop was an opportunity to discuss how the EU can ensure that green transition projects under its purview create more opportunities than challenges for pastoralists and other indigenous people in Africa.

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Информационни фишове за ЕC - Общ преглед на политиката за развитие - 28-05-2024

Sun, 26 May 2019 22:00:00 GMT

Политиката за развитие заема централно място във външните политики на Европейския съюз. Тя има за цел да намали бедността, и в крайна сметка — да я изкорени, и е от основно значение за действията на ЕС във връзка с Програмата на ООН до 2030 г. за устойчиво развитие (Програмата до 2030 г.). Сред нейните цели са подпомагане на устойчивия растеж, защита на правата на човека и демокрацията, постигане на равенство между половете, насърчаване на мира и на приобщаващия характер на обществата и преодоляване на предизвикателствата, свързани с околната среда и климата. ЕС работи в световен мащаб и е най-големият в света донор на помощ за развитие. Сътрудничеството с държавите — членки на ЕС, и придържането към Програмата до 2030 г. улесняват ефикасното предоставяне на помощ.

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