Newsletter – n°25 – December 2013
Headlines
Parliament and Council reach an agreement on the 2014-2020 multi-annual financial framework
The European Parliament and the Council finally reached a deal early December and adopted the multiannual financial framework for 2014-2020...
News from the Secretariat
Meeting with the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Interior of Cambodia
Sak Setha, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Interior of Cambodia and president of the national Committee for the management of decentralisation and deconcentration, met PLATFORMA in the context of a visit to Brussels and meetings with the European institutions...
The world at a glance
Panel on peace and security at the 2013 European Development Days
With almost 40% of Official Development Assistance (ODA) spent in fragile states but these countries very far from achieving the Millennium Development Goals, comes the conclusion that there can be no development in a zone of conflict and violence...
Initiative worth following
Technical cooperation of the Government of Catalonia in the field of health
Catalonia is a reference in the definition, implementation and evaluation of public policies, and has a wide range of technical knowledge, good practices and expertise that nurture its development cooperation policy...
In other news
Publication of the DEAR call for proposals
The European Commission (EC) has published the guidelines of the Development education and awareness raising (DEAR) call for proposals. Deadline for submission of concept note is 30 January 2014, 16.00...
Calendar
Coming soon
22 January (Brussels, Belgium): Local and regional support for Fair Trade in Europe, what can be done at the EU level? organised by Fair Trade Advocacy Office
13-14 February (Brussels, Belgium):Conference of the European Economic and Social Committee on the post-2015 development framework
13-14 February (Abuja Nigeria):Fifth Steering Committee of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation
