The European Commission proposed on the 18th of July 2008 to establish a special “facility for rapid response to soaring food prices in developing countries”. The fund would be worth €1 billion and would operate for two years, 2008 and 2009.
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The EU and the African Union are developing a security and development partnership, based on enhancing dialogue between warring factions, overseeing Africa’s peace and security architecture, and supporting African security operations, speakers told an EPC Policy Dialogue organised in cooperation with the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung. This should also focus on providing security as countries emerge from conflicts in order for them to develop, and civil society should be encouraged to play a major role in this.
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Ministers from the French Presidency of the Council, in office for the second half of 2008, took part in meetings with almost all of Parliament’s committees from 14-17 July to present their priorities. Here we present a summary of the main points of interest from a week of debates.
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Launched a little over a year ago by the French Head of State, the Union for the Mediterranean project, which aims to strengthen and deepen the cooperation between both sides of the Mediterrean, was officially inaugurated on 13 July 2008 at the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean, which brings together 43 European and Mediterranean States, the Community institutions and the regional organisations.
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Europe often sets the pace. That includes economics and politics. It’s continental union, the EU, didn’t start out with the latter in the closing years of the 1950s. It did with the former, says Tunji Ajibade.
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