Brussels, 06/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - The overriding need to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whatever the budgetary constraints imposed by the global economic crisis, was the leitmotiv in the speeches at the opening of the fifth European Development Days (EDDs) in Brussels on Monday 6 December. Describing the event as a “major forum in the international development calendar”, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said that the EDDs, which were jointly...