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European Commission's April Package launched

23 April 2010

The European Commission's April Package was released on 21 April 2010 and consists of an number of papers covering the following areas:

MDGs (general paper)
Financing for development
Aid effectiveness
Aid for trade
Tax governance
Policy Coherence for Development

In addition, there will be a number of papers on specific MDGs including: health, education, gender and food security.

The Package will now be discussed by the European Council and agreed at the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meetings in May and June and finally adopted by European Heads of States at the European Council as the common EU position towards the September UN MDGs Summit.

Bond, together with CONCORD is working in the UK and internationally to influence the outcome of the EU and UN Summits.

Further information

European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/development/services/dev-policy-proposals_en.cfm

Bond MDGs paper

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