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Aid money is being channeled towards foreign policy goals such as fighting piracy, says the report (Photo: Council of European Union)

EU realigning aid towards domestic goals, say NGOs

by Andrew Willis, Brussels,

EU members states are increasingly tying overseas development aid to specific domestic and foreign policy goals, hampering efforts to tackle the root causes of poverty, a new report by a coalition of NGOs has claimed.

Frustrated by rising immigration into Europe and stagnating wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, EU countries are turning their development funds towards an alternative list of priority areas, says the AidWatch report published on Thursday (19 May).

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Aid money is being channeled towards foreign policy goals such as fighting piracy, says the report (Photo: Council of European Union)

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