MEPs debate European Year for Development 2015

Plans for the European Year for Development (EYD2015), aiming to show how development cooperation benefits both rich and poor and help shape the global development agenda for the next 15 years, were debated in plenary on Wednesday with the High Representative Federica Mogherini i and the Council.

The EYD2015, launched on 9 January in Riga (Latvia) under the banner “Our world, our dignity, our future”, also marks the end of the Millennium Development Goals agreed at the UN in 2000. A new set of global development goals for the next 15 years is to be decided in September in New York.

You can watch the recording of the debate on the EP website (link to the right, click on 14 January).

REF. : 20150109IPR06404