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School girls in the Central African Republic. Despite the rhetoric that Europe is serious about addressing poverty and inequality, priority is being given to short-term domestic priorities. (Photo: Pierre Holtz | UNICEF)

Development serving the purpose of migration control

The European Union is on the verge of adopting proposals to reorient its development policy to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and contribute to “ending poverty in all its dimensions, irreversibly, everywhere, and leaving no one behind”.

However, instead of sending a strong signal of its commitment to the 2030 Agenda, the new EU Consensus on Development appears to be yet another policy proposal that puts migration management and border control at the centre of development c...

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School girls in the Central African Republic. Despite the rhetoric that Europe is serious about addressing poverty and inequality, priority is being given to short-term domestic priorities. (Photo: Pierre Holtz | UNICEF)

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