Multi-Donor Budget Support (MDBS) has its origins in the critique of traditional aid interventions and is aimed at overcoming related deficiencies of aid by avoiding parallel administrative and decision making structures. It is commonly understood not merely as a financing instrument but also as...

Gemeinschaftliche Budgethilfe ( Multi-Donor Budget Support – MDBS) geht auf die Kritik am traditionellen Projektansatz in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) zurück und soll dessen Schwächen unter anderem durch die Beseitigung paralleler Durchführungs- und Entscheidungsstrukturen...

The need to better adapt EU development policy to the varying levels of development of partner countries (“differentiation”) and the extent to which middle-income countries (MICs) should continue to receive EU aid have become contentious issues of the EU’s new development policy agenda as...

The European Union (EU) is in crisis mode. Its capacity to implement domestic reforms and its position as a global power are being severely undermined by centrifugal forces within Europe and the risk that the EU will disintegrate. Euroscepticism and populism abound; the reactions to the refugee...

With the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the EU will define not only the financial but also the political priorities until 2030. Which political objectives the EU intends to pursue in the future will therefore be a key issue during the MFF negotiations. The 2030 Agenda for...

The EU is one of the leading global players in international development, trade, peace and security. Therefore, a key part of the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is the one reserved for action beyond EU’s borders. This budget heading is called ‘Global Europe’ (also referred to...

Mit dem nächsten Mehrjährigen Finanzrahmen (MFR) legt die EU nicht nur die finanziellen, sondern auch politischen Schwerpunkte bis 2030 fest. Während der MFR-Verhandlungen stellt sich damit die Frage, welche politischen Ziele die EU künftig verfolgen will. Die durch die EU entscheidend...

Die EU gehört zu den führenden weltweiten Akteuren in den Bereichen internationale Entwicklung, Handel, Frieden und Sicherheit. Deshalb ist ein wesentlicher Teil des Mehrjährigen Finanzrahmens (MFR) für das auswärtige Handeln der EU reserviert. Der entsprechende Teil des Budgets heißt...

The European Green Deal conveys the EU's ambition to adjust and "green" its economic growth trajectory and become climate-neutral by 2050, as part of its contribution to the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. While being ambitiously pursued within the Union's own borders, the...

With the first Global Stocktake to be presented at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Dubai, the question of inadequate levels of climate finance for developing countries will again take centre stage. Ongoing...