Lisbon can save EU development policy from failure, says expert

New institutional arrangements under the EU's Lisbon Treaty could save the bloc's development policy from failure, an expert in the field has said.

"In my view, the reason that European aid policy is currently falling well short, one could say failing, is not because of the policies, it's because of the implementation," UK government advisor and former international director of Christian Aid, Roger Riddell, told EUobserver in an interview on Tuesday (13 April).

However, inclusion...