\u201cThese [partnership] packages will reinforce the link between external action and internal priorities, such as energy security, the supply of critical raw materials,\u201d Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Budget Commissioner Piotr Serafin wrote in an internal note seen by POLITICO laying out the EU\u2019s next multi-year budget.<\/p>\n
The potential shift would see the EU\u2019s development agenda emulate that of the U.S. and the U.K., both of whom use foreign aid as leverage to deliver on domestic voters\u2019 priorities. This would be a big change from the EU’s current aid model, which largely comes without strings attached.<\/p>\n
However, before additional conditions can be added to payments, the EU must convince key lawmakers, NGOs and member countries, who must unanimously approve the new rules, that this is a better system.<\/p>\n
That might not be easy. Critics say that this system could stymie the EU’s efforts to reduce poverty across the world. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a strategy that could undermine the quality of EU development aid,\u201d said Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Romero from Eurodad, an NGO focused on debt management in poor countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is not a single member state who supports this approach,\u201d said an EU diplomat who, like others quoted in this story, was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThese [partnership] packages will reinforce the link between external action and internal priorities, such as energy security, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2740,6560,1194,1395,6178,10685,2825,12495,32,35,3975,2000,299,5187,2915,1197,11665,839,6657,2597,13491,9899,3209,52252,2341,8106,2822,811,1201,16,657,15,49,1220,6507],"class_list":{"0":"post-116138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-balkans","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-conflict","13":"tag-critical-raw-materials","14":"tag-debt","15":"tag-development","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-energy","18":"tag-energy-security","19":"tag-eu","20":"tag-europe","21":"tag-european","22":"tag-exclusive","23":"tag-investment","24":"tag-meps","25":"tag-middle-east","26":"tag-migration","27":"tag-military","28":"tag-moldova","29":"tag-ngos","30":"tag-payments","31":"tag-piotr-serafin","32":"tag-prevention","33":"tag-raw-materials","34":"tag-regions-cohesion","35":"tag-security","36":"tag-trade","37":"tag-uk","38":"tag-ukraine","39":"tag-united-kingdom","40":"tag-united-states","41":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","42":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114538268863548447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}