Great to see the European Parliament using my reporting to call for “full transparency and accountability” over suspected fraud at the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States. tinyurl.com/yc58fz88

😑After a pandemic, the proportion of Europeans that think new technologies in vaccines and combatting infectious diseases will have a positive impact in the next 20 years has *declined* in every EU Member State, except for Denmark where it has remained unchanged. tinyurl.com/y96pb7s8

Only in Brussels.

1. Hugely cut funding to fragile states.

2. Call for new strategy to address terrible fact that fragile states are so underfunded.

Clear as mud.

Yet billions of euros and millions of lives potentially impacted by this...

A '90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance for assessment of programmatic efficiencies and consistency with United States foreign policy...'

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

European Commission foreign aid dept. offering €3m over three years for consultants to develop a network of European experts to analyse China's "policies, progress and strategic investments on digital technologies" and advise EU how to respond.

ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

And a rare, fruitful Access to Information request, showing how hard the EU's humanitarian aid department tried to resist their development colleagues' approach to implementing last year's cuts to the EU development budget.

www.devex.com/news/reveale...

.@ecdpm.org thanks for recent paper on MFF, however the €300 billion under Global Gateway was promised by 2027 (so that's NDICI 1.0's job isn't it?)

ecdpm.org/application/...