In its 21st AidWatch report, published on Wednesday 22 October, the Concord network of European NGOs points out that a growing proportion of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) declared over the last decade by the EU and its Member States does not correspond to funding actually earmarked for developing countries.
By counting expenditure that should not be counted - in particular the costs of refugees in donor countries - the report argues that Europeans have artificially inflated...