On Monday 23 November, the Ministers of the 27 Member States responsible for development stressed the importance of avoiding a major public debt crisis in the EU’s developing country partners. The videoconference of the Foreign Affairs Council in its ‘development’ format was largely devoted to the link between the EU’s global response to the Covid-19 pandemic and sustainable development(see EUROPE B12604A7).
“We agreed that we need to avoid a situation where some countries in...