“Our objective is to raise the awareness of all the players interested in the enormous potential of measures able to accelerate the reduction of poverty in the world, because it’s not a question of doing more, but doing better and doing it more rapidly”, commented Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, on the occasion of the recent adoption of the first “EU Report on the coherence of policies at the service of development (CPD), aimed at maximising the positive impact of EU policies directly in the developing countries and avoiding duplication and wastage”. At the present time EU intervention accompanying cooperation in development is concentrated on twelve policies: trade, environment, climate change, security, agriculture, fishing, social dimension of globalization, decent working conditions, migration, research and development, information society, transport and energy. The Report will be discussed at the meetings that the Commission intends to hold with representatives of member states, developing countries, civil society and the European Parliament.
