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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7705

27 April 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 52
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/development
European Commission defines new guidelines for development cooperation policy - Priority given to eradicating poverty and refocusing activities

Brussels, 26/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - In a policy document approved on Wednesday at the initiative of Commissioner Poul Nielson, the European Commission defined the new European policy guidelines for development aid, which make the eradication of poverty the main goal of Community intervention and focuses Community activity on several fundamental missions in order to achieve greater effectiveness.

To this end, the Commission proposes to gear the future Community policy to three main aims: ...

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