The European Commission’s humanitarian arm tried and failed to head off steep reductions in the commission’s development budget last year, arguing internally against the “dramatic and disproportionate cuts for countries in situations of crisis or fragility.”
Commission documents, obtained by Devex through an access to information request, show DG ECHO — the directorate-general responsible for humanitarian aid — at first blocked the proposal altogether, putting it at loggerheads with the Directorate-General for International Partnerships, or DG INTPA, the development branch of the European Union executive.
In the end, INTPA won.
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Vince Chadwick is a contributing reporter at Devex. A law graduate from Melbourne, Australia, he was social affairs reporter for The Age newspaper, before covering breaking news, the arts, and public policy across Europe, including as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe. He was long-listed for International Journalist of the Year at the 2023 One World Media Awards.
