While today less and less aid is spent in least developed countries, the EU increasingly spends ODA in favor of national and foreign policy and security interests. A new CONCORD report explores the use of EU aid to respond to security threats and warns the EU of the negative impact this has on sustainable development. Aid spending on conflict, peace and security (1.06 billion EUR reported in 2015), has outpaced the growth of all aid over the last decade, shows the report. The report shows that not only has EU security interests impacted the aid amounts allocated to conflict, peace-building and security but donors have also chosen different recipient countries. Read more here.
Source: CONCORD