Defending EU aid

News: Defend EU aid: An open letter to EU leaders

Together with National Directors of Plan International, we are writing to express our deep concern over the current state of the negotiations on the EU’s budget for 2015. Here is our open letter to EU leaders.

News: Q&A: The EU budget crisis

The EU is currently facing a serious liquidity crisis. With the EC already unable to honour bills legitimately incurred in 2014, Member states have proposed cuts to the 2015 budget, including development and humanitarian aid, jeopardising the EU’s ability to respond to complex global challenges.

Press Release: EU Budget deal 'bare minimum' required

December 9, 2014: Reacting to the provisional deal on the EU’s 2015 budget and the draft amending budgets for 2014, Plan International welcomes the agreement but warns that this must serve as a wake-up call to EU leaders.

Video: 2014-2020 EU budget must have children at its heart

If the EU is to meet its poverty eradication targets, child rights and gender must be identified as a cross-cutting theme of EU development cooperation, with at least 20% of EU aid earmarked for health and basic education.