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On 18 March, the Committees on Foreign Affairs and on Development approved the provisional agreement resulting from interinstitutional negotiations establishing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument - Global Europe. The text was adopted by 76 votes in favour, 13 against and 4 abstentions.

On 27 January, Members of the Development Committee adopted a wide-ranging strategy on a new EU-Africa partnership by 20 votes, with two votes against and three abstentions (rapporteur: Chrysoula Zacharopoulou (Renew, FR)). The report was debated and adopted in Plenary on 25 March 2021 with 460 votes in favour, 64 against and 163 abstentions.

On 29 October, the Committee on Development adopted an own-initiative report on “improving development effectiveness and efficiency of aid” presented by the Committee Chair, Tomas Tobé (EPP, Sweden). The vote was 23 in favour, 1 against and 0 abstentions.