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Neven Mimica (centre) - the current EU commissioner for development. 'Over the past decades the development commissioner has evolved from a powerhouse in Brussels towards an emperor without clothes' (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

Let's abolish EU commissioner for development

Development policy has been conspicuously absent in debates on the European Parliament elections.

This may be surprising given the enormous budgets (more than €10bn annually), extensive manpower (more than 3,000 officials in DG Devco), high ambitions (including the Sustainable Development Goals), historical role (since the EU's creation in 1957) an...

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Jan Orbie is associate professor and Sarah Delputte is assistant professor at the Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University.

Neven Mimica (centre) - the current EU commissioner for development. 'Over the past decades the development commissioner has evolved from a powerhouse in Brussels towards an emperor without clothes' (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

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Jan Orbie is associate professor and Sarah Delputte is assistant professor at the Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University.

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