The European Union’s development policy should help to ensure that extractive activities in resource-rich developing countries involve indigenous communities and bring about sustainable development in these partner countries, stressed MEPs on the European Parliament’s Committee on Development (DEVE), on Tuesday 24 October, when they adopted the amended report by Barry Andrews (Renew Europe, Irish) (13 votes in favour, 2 against and 7 abstentions) (see EUROPE B13237A9).
MEPs want the EU...