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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10820

5 April 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 21 / 22
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) development
EU aid plummets to Oxfam's alarm

Brussels, 04/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - Unless the European Union keeps its commitments in respect of official development aid (devoting 0.7% of its GNI to such aid by 2015), 90 million children in the developing world will be deprived of education, the NGO for development, Oxfam International, warns, alarmed by the fall in the volume of EU aid for the second year running. Preliminary figures for the year 2012 were published on Wednesday by the development assistance committee (DAC) of the...