With the adoption of the DPS, the European Commission’s Development Policy has achieved its three main objectives for the first year of President Barros
o’s mandate. “To do more, better and faster”: this challenge, laid down in April by Louis Michel, the Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, synthesizes the set of proposals tabled by the Commission which have successfully gone through the Parliament and Council. Firstly, in May, the Member States agreed “to do more” by undertaking to increase their Official Development Aid (ODA) significantly, with
a new intermediate target ...[+++] of 0.56% of GNI in 2010 and an ultimate target of 0.7% in 2015.
Premièrement, en mai, les États membres ont convenu de «faire plus» en s’engageant à accroître considérablement leur aide publique au développement (APD), jusqu’à atteindre le nouvel objectif intermédiaire de 0,56 % du RNB en 2010 et l’objectif final de 0,7 % en 2015.