The foreign aid information war has crossed the Atlantic.
As it first froze and then tried to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development in recent weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration mocked the kinds of projects the agency had been supporting — even if the details were often wrong or misleading.
Appearing on the conservative French television network CNews last week, Sarah Knafo, a far-right member of the European Parliament, cited her own list of projects from the French Development Agency, or AFD.
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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.
