In a blaze of donor outreach, your boss takes you on a trip to Brussels to shore up your organization’s funding future. Cue endless meetings with urn-based coffee, still and sparkling water in strangely patterned bottles, and lots of blue-and-yellow badges granting access to elevators that lead to liminal corridors. Everyone brings notepads but no one writes in them. And as for the content, it’s like another language.
But, somewhere in here, isn’t someone deciding how to spend billions in official development assistance?
So, while you wait for the deputy DG at the end of the passerelle (the walkway, not the treaty mechanism … nevermind), here’s our A-Z guide to European Union development policy.