After electing its chair and vice-chairs following the recent elections held in the European Union’s 28 member states, the European Parliament’s influential Committee on Development — known as DEVE — held its first meeting this week under the stewardship of British MEP Linda McAvan.
On the agenda were priorities for the coming months as well as the 2015 budget, Devex learned from insider sources in Brussels.
Committee members agreed to push forward on previous commitments on human development, food security and civil society as priority areas. Members also heard from European Commission representatives about their priorities in the coming parliamentary term, which included continued work around the executive’s position on the post-2015 framework in advance of the United Nations General Assembly in September, the definition of the so-called Means of Implementation to be presented next year in Addis Ababa, and follow-up on the Cotonou cooperative agreement — the framework for the EU’s relations with 79 countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, which expires in 2020.
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