International and humanitarian aid

European Council: What’s ahead for Donald Tusk

As Donald Tusk starts his first working day as the president of the European Council, Gazeta Wyborcza singles out the most important challenges laying ahead […]

2 December 2014 – VoxEurop Gazeta Wyborcza 60
Kazakhstan: Interpol warrants used to ‘pursue dissidents’ in the EU

“Kazakhstan is using Interpol, the joint police body based in Lyon, France, to wage a political vendetta in the heart of the EU,” begins the […]

5 September 2013 – Presseurop EUobserver.com 2
Article: ‘European poverty explosion worries Red Cross’

Five years after the start of the crisis, Europe is still “choked by recession”, warns The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies […]

31 January 2013 – Presseurop Le Temps 1
Foreign aid: EU money only benefits the corrupt

According to the European Court of Auditors, it’s almost impossible to check how EU aid money is spent by developing countries. As a major EU aid fraud scandal hits Uganda, commentators in Kampala wonder why European donors continue to funnel cash into a corrupt country.

21 December 2012 – De Standaard (Brussels) 16
Somalia: How Europe can help

No more talk: Europe must act now to relieve famine in the Horn of Africa. It can start by helping to restore order in a country racked by decades of civil war.

16 August 2011 – ABC (Madrid) 3
Humanitarian aid: The problem with Pakistan

Three weeks after the Pakistan floods claimed their first victims, Europe is finally reacting. Is this a case of complacency or prejudice, or is there a deeper malaise?

19 August 2010 – Presseurop () 2
Israel: Europe's most costly "member"

Even though it is supposed to be a privileged partner of the European Union, Israel regularly targets infrastructure paid for by the EU during its attacks on Palestinians. So why is Europe not demanding compensation?

18 August 2010 – Público (Madrid) 1
Pakistan: Why is Europe so slow to react?

"Umoved by this," reads the De Standaard headline over a photo of a young Pakistani half covered in mud. The report in the daily […]

13 August 2010 – Presseurop Presseurop 1
Haiti: EU reaction-time criticized

According to Belgian Development Minister Charles Michel of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR), the European ministerial meeting to discuss emergency aid for Haiti scheduled for Monday […]

15 January 2010 – Presseurop De Standaard
Haiti: A manmade disaster

As the international community scrambles to the aid of Haiti after the January 12th earthquake, Peter Hallward in the Guardian points out its complicity in the island’s enduring economic devastation, which leaves hundreds of thousands all too easily exposed to large-scale natural disaster.

14 January 2010 – The Guardian (London) 2
Foreign policy: The peacekeeper's lament

Diplomats, soldiers, policemen: from the Balkans to Afghanistan, the EU is deploying more or less ambitious peacekeeping missions. But in a report two experts assert that lack of organisation or commitment from member states means that the results often fall short of expectation, reports Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

21 October 2009 – Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (Warsaw)
China: Look who's coming to Europe

Pressing ahead with its worldwide expansion agenda, China is now snatching up contracts in highly-indebted Eastern Europe. Beijing is hell bent on out-leveraging the Western competition there by offering dumping prices and cheap loans. But this is not just about fat contracts, writes the Handelsblatt: the Middle Kingdom is also buying political sway.

23 September 2009 – Handelsblatt (Düsseldorf) 1
Democratisation: EU too soft on hardline regimes

“Europe’s attempt to base foreign policy on ethical considerations is liable to come a cropper,” opines the Tagesspiegel, citing Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and Libya as cases […]

14 September 2009 – Presseurop Der Tagesspiegel
Africa: Asia leaps as Europe lags

The European Union used to be the major partner for African governments, but it has increasingly lost ground to China, Russia and India, which now leads the race to take advantage of the continent's precious resources.

30 June 2009 – Il Sole-24 Ore (Milan)
Health: Patently cruel

European customs often seize medicines bound for developing countries on the basis of suspected violation of patent rights. Humanitarian organisations denounce this practice which, they argue, benefits pharmaceutical companies to the detriment of the world's poor.

19 June 2009 – De Volkskrant (Amsterdam)

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