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Simplify EU development aid
EU development aid is a complex business implemented through the Commission’s Directorate General for Development cooperation (DEVCO) in Brussels and by EU delegations on the ground. The assistance...
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Security Sector Reform in the MENA Region
FRIDE Middle East and North Africa expert, Barah Mikail, recently wrote an opinion piece for Open Democracy, on the future of security sector reform in the MENA region. You can find the original...
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Three Chinese tests for the EU
Ahead of Thursday’s EU-China summit in Brussels, FRIDE Director Richard Youngs has written an opinion piece for E!Sharp, titled “Three Chinese tests for the EU”. The piece can be found here, and it is...
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The differentiation debate: Does the EU have responsibility for helping to...
As part of events marking the 2012 European Development Days (EDDs) in Brussels on 16-17 October, researchers from the ETTG – the European Think Tanks Group (FRIDE, ODI, ECDPM and GDI) – write a series...
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Preserving European influence in the Middle East and North Africa
FRIDE senior researcher, Kristina Kausch, has written an opinion piece for the LSE Europp Blog, arguing that If Europe is to preserve influence in the Middle East and North Africa, it must move on from...
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Can the EU combine diplomacy, defence and development?
For many years politicians and officials have described the EU’s main added value in international security as its ability to bring together a wide range of instruments, from diplomats to development...
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Debating development: what place for the EU?
This week I participated in the ‘EU Changemakers Conference’, hosted by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London. This event brought together policy-makers, researchers and NGO...
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The European Development Days
FRIDE senior researcher Clare Castillejo attended the 2013 European Development Days in Brussels, in which government and civil society representatives, experts, policy-makers and activists from all...
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Conflict in South Sudan
South Sudan is facing the prospect of civil war. In recent weeks political tensions have triggered widespread ethnic and political violence and mass displacement. Peace talks are now underway amid...
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India’s 2014 elections
From 7 April to 12 May 2014, the world’s largest democracy, India, holds parliamentary elections. Around 815 million eligible voters can choose from some 1,616 political parties, but Narendra Modi,...
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ISIS explained
What is ISIS? Will the coalition’s strategy work? How ISIS got where it is? In light of ISIS advances throughout the MENA region and beyond, particularly in Syria and Iraq, the international...
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New donors and the development agenda
2015 is the European Year of international development, during which a new framework for development should be adopted. The development agenda has changed and although the EU remains the world’s...
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