The EU Council of Ministers on Thursday 16 May expressed growing concern about the downward trend in collective EU Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2018 for the second consecutive year, based on the European Commission's analysis and preliminary data published by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in April (see EUROPE B12234A23, B12233A17).
This is the main message expressed in the conclusions on the EU's development aid objectives, adopted without debate on the...