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📅 With this week marking the first plenary session of the new European Parliament and the election of Ursula von der Leyen as the next European Commission President, Jean Van Wetter, CEO of the Belgian development agency Enabel, and Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, Chair of the Management Board of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, have jointly published an article in POLITICO on why the EU needs to stay engaged in fragile contexts. Read here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eSt5jam4 🤲 As #peace, #poverty, #stability, and #resilience are interconnected and should be dealt with in a comprehensive way, the article underlines how it is both in line with European values and interests to contribute to stabilising and addressing the drivers of social, economic and ecological crises and protracted violent conflicts worldwide. In this context “international development organizations work on a wide range of topics, including those that will be at the heart of EU policy discussions, such as #migration, #security, #energy and #environmentaltransition. Trying to achieve results on migration or security, for example, without addressing the dimensions and drivers of fragility, will not work. Worse, it would be counterproductive.” They close by stressing the central importance of EU decision-makers continuing to pay due political attention to this issue in the mandate to come. 🔗 Having both acquired considerable expertise in working in fragile contexts while also addressing drivers of fragility, GIZ and Enabel will continue to closely work together in the framework of the Practitioners' Network for European Development Cooperation. As #TeamEurope, we must acknowledge that “sustainable peace needs international cooperation and it needs Europe’s attention today”. Read the full article below 👇 https://lnkd.in/dF7Ygu56 #InternationalCooperation #TeamEurope #Fragility #Sustainability #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanCommission #UvL Dr Friedrich Stift, Juha Savolainen, Michal Minčev, Manuel Tonnar, Francisco TIERRASECA GALDÓN, Tobias Jung Altrogge, Marco Riccardo Rusconi, Jeremie Pellet, AGENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE COOPERACION INTERNACIONAL PARA EL DESARROLLO - AECID, #AICS, British Council, Centrālā finanšu un līgumu aģentūra, Central Project Management Agency, Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P., Czech Development Agency - CzechAid, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Estonian Centre for International Development (ESTDEV), #FCDO, #FIIAPP, Goethe-Institut e.V., LuxDev, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Netherlands Enterprise Agency , #RoAid, SNV, Sida, Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation
