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Statement by Tomas Tobé, Chair of Parliament’s Committee on Development, following the publication of the EU-Africa strategy on Monday 9 March.

The African, Caribbean, Pacific Group of States and the European Union (ACP-EU) must work in solidarity to tackle the health and socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

Statement by Tomas Tobé, Chair of European Parliament’s Committee on Development, on the launch of the pledging event “the Coronavirus Global Response Initiative”.

All of the EP’s 20 standing committees and two subcommittees held their constitutive meetings on Wednesday to elect their chair and vice-chairs.

Gender Equality and Development MEPs are attending the 25th UN International Conference on Population and Development in Nairobi this week.

Europe and Africa must move away from a donor-recipient relationship, said the Development Committee, outlining its vision for a relationship between the two continents.

On Thursday, the Development Committee will discuss with Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen how developing countries can access COVID-19 vaccines.

Ministers are outlining the priorities of the German Presidency of the Council of the EU to parliamentary committees, in a series of meetings.

The democratic opposition in Belarus, Guapinol activists and Berta Cáceres, and the Archbishop of Mosul were shortlisted for the 2020 Sakharov Prize on Monday.

On Thursday 3 September, Niels Annen, Minister for State, at the German Federal Foreign Office, told the Development Committee that the presidency has two main priorities on humanitarian aid

Joint Statement of the Co-Presidents of the ACP - EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly on maintaining the Joint Assembly in the future Partnership Agreement.

On Thursday, MEPs on the Foreign Affairs and Development committees approved the provisionally agreed Global Europe instrument, which will finance the EU's coming external action priorities.

On 28 September, Gerd Müller, German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, told the Development Committee that the presidency has several priorities on development:

Ministers outlined the priorities of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU to parliamentary committees, in a series of meetings.

COVID-19 vaccines should be produced also in developing countries to overcome the pandemic, development MEPs told Commissioner Urpilainen on Thursday.

Committee on Development voted on a report on “improving development effectiveness and efficiency of aid”.

An informal agreement on an EU scheme aiming to mobilise €44 billion in private sector investment in Africa and EU neighbourhood was reached with EU ministers on Wednesday.

An EU scheme to mobilise €44 billion in private sector investment in Africa and the EU’s neighbourhood should focus on the poor, said committee MEPs on Monday.

European Parliament insists that the future institutional framework must still include an ACP-EU joint parliamentary dimension.

The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) calls on the EU to make COVID-19 vaccines a global public good that is accessible to all.