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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9166

4 April 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/development
NGOs accuse Member States of inflating aid figures

Brussels, 03/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have claimed that some EU Member States, wanting to achieve the target of 0.7% of GNI to fight extreme poverty they set themselves in the Millennium goals, are inflating their aid figures by counting again money that had already been allocated. NGOs say that of the sums officially allocated in public aid, nearly 12.5 billion euro was not new money but was, in fact, spent on debt cancellation, housing refugees and...

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