On Wednesday 25 November, the European Parliament voted to make future development aid conditional on developing countries cooperating with the EU on migration management. This is a major innovation in MEPs’ majority vote on the report on improving the effectiveness of European development aid (331 votes in favour of the report, 294 against and 72 abstentions).
For good measure with this new approach, the resolution recalls that one of the overarching objectives of the EU’s development...