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Strategically located in the heart of the Indo-Pacific region, and almost completely surrounded by India, Bangladesh has the eighth biggest population in the world. In the 50 years following its breakaway from Pakistan, Bangladesh has made spectacular economic and social progress. Once one of the world's poorest countries, with the US administration calling it a 'basket case' when it became independent, Bangladesh is now due to graduate from least-developed country (LDC) status in 2026. The government ...

On 15 November 2023, the European Union (EU) and its Member States signed a new partnership agreement (referred to as the 'Samoa Agreement') with member states of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). The multiple negotiation levels, the coronavirus crisis and difficulties in reaching agreement on sensitive issues, such as migration management and sexual and reproductive health and rights, prevented the new agreement from being finalised by the initial expiry date set ...

This note provides an overview of the implementation of the 2022 recommendation on the economic policies of the euro area proposed by the Commission and agreed by the Council. It makes use of public information and proxies such as on how the Eurogroup has integrated euro area recommendations’ concerns in their “thematic discussions” and work programmes. This note will be updated in light of relevant developments.

The annual meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are an opportunity for stakeholders to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, financial stability, poverty eradication, economic development, and aid effectiveness. During this year's meeting, from 10 to 16 October in Washington DC, discussions will revolve around climate change and Russia's war on Ukraine.

Das vorliegende Dokument ist eine Zusammenfassung der Studie „Cohesion Policy in Northernmost Regions of the EU“ (Kohäsionspolitik in den nördlichsten Regionen der EU). Die vollständige Studie ist in englischer Sprache unter folgendem Link abrufbar: https://bit.ly/3QZ4lCk.

Mit 1,8 Mio. Einwohnern (93 % ethnische Albaner) erklärte das Kosovo* im Jahr 2008 einseitig seine Unabhängigkeit von Serbien. Auf den Gipfeltreffen in Thessaloniki (2003), Sofia (2018) und kürzlich Zagreb (2020), Brdo (2021) und Brüssel (2022), auf denen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der EU ihre uneingeschränkte Unterstützung für die europäische Perspektive des Westbalkans bekräftigten, wurde die Perspektive des Kosovo für eine europäische Zukunft erklärt. Das Europäische Parlament soll bei seiner ...

The Monthly Highlights publication provides an overview, at a glance, of the on-going work of the policy departments, including a selection of the latest and forthcoming publications, and a list of future events.

EPRS invites leading experts and commentators to share their thinking and insights on important topics of relevance to debate in the European institutions. In this paper, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, looks at the current state of the Chinese economy, and at the various factors likely to influence its evolution in the coming years. He argues that Chinese growth will slow to below the levels ...

While the UN Human Development Index, which assesses progress in the standard of living, health and education, ranks Russia among the 'very high human development' countries, other data suggest a more nuanced reality. Russia has gone from Soviet-era egalitarianism to extremes of wealth and poverty. Economic growth during the first decade under Vladimir Putin's leadership slightly reduced the gap between rich and poor, but inequality is still higher than in most developed countries. Factors such as ...

Paschal Donohoe is attending his third Economic Dialogue in the ECON Committee since being elected as President of the Eurogroup in July 2020. His previous Economic Dialogue took place on 21 June 2021. This briefing covers the following issues: the Eurogroup work programme (Section 1); Economic situation and developments (Section 2); Euro Area Recommendation (Section 3); European Semester Cycle (Section 4); Recovery and Resilience Facility (Section 5); and Completing EMU governance (Section 6)). ...