EXTERNAL ACTION / Development

By including aid to refugees in Europe in its calculation, EU public aid rises by 11% in 2016

Brussels, 12/04/2017 (Agence Europe)

For the fourth consecutive year in a row, the level of public development aid (PDA) from the EU and its member states increased in 2016 to reach €75 .5 billion (an 11% rise on 2015 figures) but aid to refugees in Europe made up a considerable part of this amount, according to the provisional figures published by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) published on Tuesday, 11 April.

This contribution accounts for 0.51 percent of the EU’s GNI and is still far off the 0.7 percent...