EXTERNAL ACTION / Development

While EU remains world's leading ODA donor, Jutta Urpilainen is alarmed at a drop in European aid

Brussels, 17/04/2020 (Agence Europe)

With 75.2 billion euros in 2019, the collective Official Development Assistance (ODA) of the EU and its Member States represented 55.2% of world public aid, a performance of which it has no reason to be ashamed, according to the European Commission, even though the latter considered, on the evening of Thursday 16 April, that more needs to be done, being alarmed by a slight fall in the level of this European aid for the third year running.

Last year, collective aid from the EU and its Member...