The future financing of the EU’s external action in a complex geopolitical context of major global crises – including the war in Ukraine and the war in the Middle East – was discussed by the EU Member States’ Ministers for Development on Monday 12 February at their informal meeting, hosted by the Egmont Palace in Brussels (see EUROPE B13347A10).
It was dominated by the desperate humanitarian situation in Gaza, discussed for the first time by EU ministers with the Secretary-General...