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Victory in campaign for EU deal on transparency in the extractive sector
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Catherine Olier, Policy Advisor at Oxfam’s EU Office, reflects on a hard-fought victory that will force oil, gas, mining and logging companies to come clean on their finances in the developing world. The European Parliament and EU member states...
EU-India free trade deal puts millions of lives at risk
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by Leïla Bodeux, Policy Advisor in Essential Services at Oxfam-in-Belgium As the mid-April deadline to conclude negotiations for the EU-India free trade agreement approaches, members of the European Parliament and civil society groups from acros...
Staggering 55% cut to EU funding for climate change adaptation
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by Lies Craeynest, Oxfam’s EU climate change expert European funding to help poor countries adapt to a changing climate is dropping remarkably at a time when it needs to be scaled up in line with UN commitments and people are dealing with incre...
European promises to poor nations crumbling
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Aid builds hospitals, pays doctors’ salaries and buys textbooks and medical equipment. It isn’t charity; it’s a tiny but crucial investment to build a better, safer world. New figures from the OECD, released today, show that...
Hungry? The EU biofuels industry has feed for you
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Oxfam has long been concerned that increasing production of biofuels pushes up food prices, encourages land grabs and in many cases increases rather than reduces dangerous greenhouse gas emissions. Within the GROW campaign, we are fighting to...
Aid must be protected from hard bargaining on the EU budget
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In this age of austerity, the forces of frugality are powerful; so is the temptation to defend national self-interest. The negotiations on the next 7-year budget of the EU are a case in point. And the biggest casualty of EU financial squabbles may we...
A resolved Presidency steer to tackle poverty and climate change
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Ireland’s six month EU presidency comes at a crucial moment for the Union, facing vital decisions on policies and a budget that will shape Europe and its role in the world in the next seven years and beyond. With various opportunities to be sei...
A way to fill the Green Climate Fund
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By Natalia Alonso, Tony Long and Jorgo Riss The EU’s financial-transaction tax could unlock financing to be used to limit and cope with climate change. A year of record breaking extreme weather has served as a timely reminder of the need to inv...
Message to EU: champion transparency in extractive industries
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In a ‘Letter to Europe’ published in the Financial Times, Oxfam and other NGOs of the Publish What You Pay coalition are calling key EU decision makers to resist pressure from the oil industry and champion transparency in oil, gas, mining and log...
MEPs must put food security before the interests of the financial sector
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This week, Members of the European Parliament have a real opportunity to tackle food speculation. High and volatile food prices are driving millions into poverty in low income food import dependant countries. European families are feeling the...
The truth behind the ‘resource curse’
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The problem Too many resource-rich poor countries, such as Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of Congo, are suffering from what some call ‘the resource curse’. Multinational companies are exploiting their resources in a non-transparent way, a...
The Cypriot EU Presidency kicks off: Will it live up to its global duties?
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Over the last decades, Cyprus has evolved from an aid recipient to an aid donor country helping those most in need in the developing world. However, despite getting off to a good start, going above and beyond its overseas aid target for 2010, Cyprus...
Tasa Robin Hood: Una solución para la gente de a pie
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Por Àngela Corbalán En tiempos de vacas flacas como ahora, una tasa a las transacciones financieras supondría una inyección extra de dinero para la salud y educación públicas difícil de desperdiciar. Pero curiosamente, como ha sucedido con otr...
EU ignoring impact of biofuels on food security
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by Natalia Alonso Energy ministers must set out a renewables path for Europe that does not come at the expense of millions of families in developing countries, who are struggling to feed their children, says Oxfam Biofuels are pushing up food prices...
Widespread EU aid cuts will cost lives and must be reversed
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Figures released by the OECD today show that Europe has made widespread cuts to overseas aid in the last year. Indeed, development aid from most EU-15 countries has been slashed, leaving Europe even further off-track to meet its promise to give 0.7 p...
Hopes for a European financial transaction tax are not dead
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European Finance Ministers are meeting in Copenhagen today and tomorrow to discuss the possibility of introducing a tax on financial transactions. Some journalists appear to be insisting that the prospects for such a tax are fading or even doomed, bu...
Over 70 NGOs urge Danish EU Presidency to speed up FTT
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Over 70 organisations have urged the Danish EU Presidency to speed up negotiations on a financial transaction tax (FTT) in a letter sent ahead of tomorrow’s EU Finance Ministers meeting, where an EU FTT will be up for discussion. Signatories wa...
Oxfam calls on Europe to end conflicting policies on Somalia
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For the EU, piracy is the most visible symptom of instability in Somalia. But for over two million Somali people who are in need of urgent humanitarian aid, instability means a daily struggle to provide food, water and safety to their families. As it...
High expectations on Danish EU Presidency
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Denmark has an excellent track record of commitment and expertise when it comes to helping the world’s poorest. Onlookers have good reason to hope that Denmark will make sure that the EU remains ambitious in its development and humanitarian goals a...
