With the adoption of the DPS, the European Commission’s Development Policy has achieved its three main objectives fo
r the first year of President Barroso’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 table
d 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.