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28 Mar 17
A fixation on proving spending is effective could be limiting the potential of the UK’s £12bn aid budget, the country’s parliamentary aid watchdog has warned.
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27 Mar 17
Portugal has recorded its lowest deficit in 40 years after halving it in 2016, figures published by the country’s national statistics office last week showed.
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27 Mar 17
A tiff over collective bargaining in Greece resurfaced last week when prime minister Alexis Tsipras sent a letter to European leaders accusing them of double standards.
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22 Mar 17
France’s interior minister Bruno Le Roux has stood down amid an inquiry into publicly funded jobs he gave to his two teenage daughters during the school holidays.
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21 Mar 17
Poland’s ‘record’ economic growth is a development success story but the country needs to undertake further reform, according to the World Bank.
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21 Mar 17
Eurozone finance ministers have agreed to benchmark the sustainability of member states’ pension systems against the performance of the best.
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20 Mar 17
UK aid is to fund training courses in financial management, governance and cost effectiveness to smaller British organisations managing humanitarian projects around the world.
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16 Mar 17
Dutch voters have roundly rejected creeping far-right politics in a general election widely considered to be a litmus test for the strength of resurgent nationalism in Europe.
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15 Mar 17
The OECD has congratulated Spain on its economic recovery just as the country is also buoyed by official figures showing inflation at a four-year high.
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14 Mar 17
The controversial private sector investment arm of the UK's Department for International Development has just been given access to a lot more of the country's aid money, but does it also have the...
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10 Mar 17
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi said the euro is “irrevocable” while outlining a “more optimistic” outlook for the currency bloc yesterday.
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3 Mar 17
Eurozone inflation surpassed the bloc’s target rate for the first time since 2013 in February, according to preliminary data published yesterday by Eurostat.
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3 Mar 17
Millions of dollars of aid funds are being undermined as donor efforts to stem migration from countries like Ethiopia are thwarted by the country’s labour laws, a UK think-tank has argued.
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2 Mar 17
Accusations of misconduct have prompted the entire top management of private sector aid firm Adam Smith International (ASI) to resign.
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28 Feb 17
International lenders have arrived in Greece today to examine the implementation of public sector reforms needed before the latest tranche of cash can be released as part of the country’s...
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24 Feb 17
The UK has come under fire for dressing up a £100m ($125m) aid package for South Sudan as “new” when in fact it had already been allocated for the country in 2018.
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24 Feb 17
Germany’s budget surplus has hit an almost two-decade high, at €24bn, bolstered by tax receipts from strong employment.
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22 Feb 17
The UK has announced £200m in new aid for Somalia and South Sudan, both of which are teetering on the brink of widespread famine.
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21 Feb 17
The European Council has agreed fresh measures to prevent corporations avoiding tax via countries that are not members of the European Union.
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21 Feb 17
Greece and its creditors have found some “common ground” following the latest meetings on its stalling €86bn bailout in Brussels yesterday.
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21 Feb 17
The European Union’s flagship biodiversity programme, Natura 2000, requires better oversight and financial management, auditors have said.
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20 Feb 17
Hungary could be forced to withdraw its bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games in the capital Budapest after a petition to hold a referendum on the matter received more than double the signatures needed...
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17 Feb 17
Significant changes to the operation of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund have been outlined in proposals from the Norwegian government.
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17 Feb 17
The UK should slash its £12bn per year aid budget by 80%, one of the country’s most right wing popular parties has said.
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16 Feb 17
The European Commission has delivered “final warnings” on pollution to a host of the bloc’s major economies.