Alarmed by the particularly severe impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the most vulnerable economies, which are heavily dependent on commodity exports, foreign aid and tourism, the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) called, on Friday 12 March, for the amount of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to be urgently scaled up as part of a more systemic multilateral response.
In a wide-ranging resolution, MEPs and ACP (Africa/Caribbean/Pacific) MEPs welcomed the EU’s global response...