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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10819

4 April 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 21 / 23
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) development
Another sharp fall in EU assistance last year

Brussels, 03/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - For the second year in a row, the volume of Official Development Assistance (ODA) from the EU15 fell sharply in 2012, experiencing a €10 billion deficit in relation to the 0.51% of EU collective GNI target it set itself in 2010, according to the initial ODA figures published on Wednesday 3 April by the OECD. This trend is not exclusive to the European Union because ODA in all OECD countries fell by 4% in real value in 2012 (-$8 billion) after a 2%...