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This briefing gives an overview of the different kind of EU funding for Africa and Latin America. Short explanations of the different types of funding are given and tables are provided with the different amounts targeting Africa and Latin America. The main EU budget instrument for funding for Africa and Latin America is the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument - Global Europe (NDICI). Besides the NDICI there are other funds that address humanitarian aid and emergency ...

'This is Europe' – an initiative proposed by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola – consists of a series of debates with EU leaders to discuss their visions for the future of the European Union. In his address to the European Parliament on 13 June 2023, the reunification of the island was a central theme for the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides. He stressed that the EU has every interest, but also an 'obligation to actively contribute to its final settlement' by taking ...

While each macro-regional strategy is unique in terms of the countries it brings together and the scope of its policies, they all share a common aim: to ensure a coordinated approach to issues that are best tackled together. Building on the success of the pioneering 2009 European Union strategy for the Baltic Sea region, this form of cooperation has since become firmly embedded in the EU's institutional framework, with four strategies now in place, covering 19 Member States and 10 non-EU countries ...

Le financement mixte et les garanties ont suscité un grand intérêt en tant qu’outils permettant de faire progresser les objectifs de développement en mobilisant des fonds supplémentaires pour le développement en utilisant des fonds publics limités pour remplir une fonction de réduction des risques. Dans le cadre de l’IVCDCI — Europe dans le monde, le FEDD + fournit un cadre pour les opérations de financement mixte et de garantie dans le cadre de l’action extérieure de l’UE. Entre autres, le FEDD ...

This study provides an overview of the EFSD+, a core part of the NDICI-Global Europe Instrument. The study situates the EFSD+ in the context of previous EU experiences with the use of blended finance and guarantees to address external action objectives, focusing on the EIB’s External Lending Mandate (ELM) and the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD). The study examines key challenges related to the accountability and performance of these instruments to inform oversight of EFSD+ implementation ...

La proposition de règlement établissant l’instrument de voisinage, de coopération au développement et de coopération internationale relève de la rubrique 6 «Voisinage et monde» du nouveau cadre financier pluriannuel (CFP), qui définit les principales priorités de l’action extérieure de l’Union européenne pour la période 2021-2027. L’instrument proposé, doté d’un budget de 70,8 milliards d’euros aux prix de 2018, regroupe dix instruments et fonds distincts qui existaient dans le CFP 2014-2020, ainsi ...

On 14 June 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation establishing the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) III as part of a set of external action instruments under the new 2021 to 2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF). The proposed financial envelope represents a 1.1 % decrease compared with current funding (€12.9 billion in 2018 prices). Beneficiaries include the Western Balkan countries and Turkey. The IPA, set up for the 2007 to 2013 MFF, aims to prepare ...

This study evaluates the performance of the EU external financing instruments (EFIs) in the light of the results of the European Commission’s mid-term review and discussions on their post-2020 architecture. This evaluation finds that the existing architecture and geographic/thematic coverage of the EFIs has, overall, been relevant to the EU policy objectives set in 2014. However, they were less responsive to recipients’ needs, and implementation weaknesses persist. At the strategic level, weaknesses ...

Le 18 novembre, les négociateurs du Parlement européen et du Conseil sont parvenus à un accord provisoire sur le budget 2018 de l’Union. Le projet commun, qui comprend des crédits d’engagement de 160,11 milliards d’euros et des crédits de paiement de 144,68 milliards d’euros au total, devrait être adopté par le Conseil puis mis aux voix au Parlement lors de la période de session de novembre II.

Despite current EU-Russia tensions, cross-border cooperation programmes continue unaffected. As well as promoting people-to-people contacts, such programmes deliver economic and other benefits to participants, especially on the Russian side of the border.