European Parliament:
-17-20 February : European Parliament Committee Meetings
-18 February: Parliamentary Forum on "EU Parliaments in global Governance"
-19 February : Committee on Development
Council of the EU:
- 17 February: Meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRI)
- 18 February: Meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN)
European Commission
- 17 February: Atlantic strategy: workshop on directly managed funds and operational programmes
ACP Group:
- 17 February: Working Group on Cotton
- 18 February: Joint ACP-EC Technical Committee on Sugar
- 20 February : Committee of Ambassadors
- 21 February: Working Group W/G on Bananas
In this week’s CTA Brussels video interview, Prof. Neils Röling, Emeritus Professor of Innovation and Communication Studies, University of Wageningen, tells us a bit more about the “Action Research programme Convergence of Sciences – Strengthening Innovation Systems (CoS-SIS)”.
‘Revolutionising finance for agri-value chains‘– this is the theme of the next Brussels Development Briefing – organized 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. The event will take place on Wednesday 5 March 2014 at the ACP Secretariat, in Brussels.
Read moreEU Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, has today announced €195 million for Mauritania in the areas of food security, rule of law and healthcare for the years 2014-2020. The Commissioner will meet President Abdel Aziz and Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdhaf during his visit, and discussions are expected to focus in particular on ongoing cooperation between the EU and Mauritania in the areas of security, development and fishing. The Commissioner is also expected to underline the EU’s ongoing commitment to supporting the country on its path to growth and in the key role it has to play in security in the Sahel.