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The Corporate Financial Centre, Brasilia. Mr Van Rompuy is also set to meet a number of the country's top bankers (Photo: Christoph Diewald)

NGOs slam EU-Brazil plans to develop biofuels in Africa

by Andrew Willis, Brussels,

EU and Brazilian leaders are set to announce a new "triangular co-operation" initiative, under which they will aim to work together in some of the world's poorest countries, but NGOs say the duo's scheme is self-centred and will simply make conditions worse.

At a bilateral summit in Brasilia on Wednesday (14 July), European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are to agree to co-operate on a...

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The Corporate Financial Centre, Brasilia. Mr Van Rompuy is also set to meet a number of the country's top bankers (Photo: Christoph Diewald)

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