A donor aid transparency index paints a mixed picture on how the European Commission disperses its aid funds outside the EU.
The study, published on Monday (1 October), by the London-based Publish What You Fund campaign, ranked the commission’s directorate on development and cooperation (Devco) as among the most transparent in a list of 72 donor organisations.
Devco’s annual budget for 2011 was over € 7 billion, said the campaign.
“This evaluation from an independent and re...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.