Aid for trade granted to developing countries is an excellent way of implementing the 2013 universal agenda for sustainable development and achieving the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the view of European development ministers. For that reason, therefore, at their meeting on Monday 11 December, they gave their support to the revised strategy proposed by the Commission on 14 November to make the policy in this area more effective (see EUROPE 11904).
In its conclusions, the...