On 24 January 2017, the International Trade Union Confederation, the European Trade Union Confederation and ActionAid organised a half-day event bringing together officials from the European...
People across Europe have, to their frustration, already added two new terms to their vocabulary in 2015: #LuxLeaks and #Swissleaks. These are the media nicknames for revelations from...
By Javier Pereira, Europe Advocacy Coordinator.The European Commission released on June 2nd a new Communication on the post-2015 agenda: “A Decent Life for All: From Vision to Collective Action”. The...
By Natalia Alonso, Oxfam’s EU Head of Office and Javier Pereira, Action Aid’s Europe Advocacy CoordinatorThe EU must seize an important opportunity this week to strengthen its ties with its...
On 26th and 27th of November, the European Development Days took place in Brussels. Discussions during those two days covered issues as diverse as the relationship between aid and trade, or the...
This article was first published on www.euractiv.comIts authors are Laura Sullivan, EU advocacy coordinator for ActionAid International, and Robbie Blake, a biofuels campaigner for Friends of the...
Some EU policies are having major negative impacts on the lives and rights of the poor in developing countries. This is according to a recent report by CONCORD, the confederation of European...
Last week saw the marking of World Food Day, a day when people around the world raise awareness around a scandalous fact – that 1 in 8 people on the planet goes to bed hungry every night.Hunger has...
Last week saw the marking of World Food Day, a day when people around the world raise awareness around a scandalous fact – that 1 in 8 people on the planet goes to bed hungry every night.Hunger has...