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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