CONCORD [to 28 November 2015]
http://www.concordeurope.org/news-room
European NGO confederation for relief and development
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EU misses its own target for development aid: A false start for the EU Agenda 2030 ambitions
(Brussels 24/11/2015) Action remains well short of ambition in the European Union, a new report by CONCORD, the European NGO confederation for relief and development shows.
Despite repeated promises, the EU as a whole did not deliver on its commitment to spend 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) as aid by 2015. More worryingly, there is an emerging trend in EU countries to divert aid budgets from sustainable development to domestic costs associated with hosting refugees and asylum seekers.