On Tuesday 24 October, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker expressed regret at the low level of member states participation in the EU Trust Fund for Africa.
“We set up an emergency trust fund for Africa with an envelope of €1.8 billion in the - naive - hope that the member states would make exactly the same effort”, Juncker told a debate at the European Council of 19 and 20 October, adding that he had regularly called on the member states to “match their actions...