European Parliament:
- 23-24 September: Committee on Foreign Affairs
- 25 September: EU support to United Nations and African Union Peacekeeping
European Commission:
- 24 September: Conference: "The EU dairy sector : developing beyond 2015"
Council of the EU:
- 23 September: Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRI)
- 29-30 September: Informal meeting of directors general on fishery
ACP Group:
- 24 September: Bureau of the Committee of Ambassadors
- 24 September: Steering Committee on Sustainable Development
- 25 September: W/G on the Future Perspectives of the ACP Group
- 25 September: ACP-EU Dialogue on Migration
- 26 September: Committee of Ambassadors
In this week’s CTA Brussels video interview, Rohana Subasinghe, Senior Aquaculture Officer, FAO, talks about the risks and challenges of aquaculture in the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, and the specific situation of small-scale aqua-farmers.
More on FAO‘Drivers of success for agricultural transformation in Africa ‘– this is the theme of the next Brussels Development Briefing – organized on Wednesday, 2nd October at the Borschette Congress Center (in Brussels) by the Technical Centre for Agriculture (CTA), together with the DG Development and Cooperation of the European Commission (EC/DEVCO), the ACP Secretariat and the European NGO confederation for Relief and Development, Concord .
This year, the European Union(EU) will donate € 400,000 to the Trade Facilitation National Needs Assessments Trust Fund and € 200,000 to the Trade Facilitation Window I Trust Fund. Another donation of € 100,000 will be allocated to support the effective participation of Least Developed Countries in the 9th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference.
NGOs claim that European Union (EU) firms deprive economically struggling countries by dodging taxes. Concord, a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), stated that the tax revenues that are being withheld from these poorer countries add up to about $100 billion, due to the lack of appropriate EU policies.