Our solidarity must never be limited to the Member States of the European Union. We also have a responsibility to promote peace, democracy, human rights and welfare in other parts of the world.

The 21st Century belongs to those who can end global poverty. If we do not, all that we achieved in the 20th Century and within the European Union will be put at risk.

EPP-ED Coordinators on the Committee on Development and the ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) - EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

PRESS RELEASES

09/12/2008	Durchbruch für EVP-ED-Fraktion im Entwicklungsausschuss/ Breakthrough for ACP Economic Partnership Agreements. Jürgen Schröder MEP
04/12/2008	Emergency Food Aid passed in record time. Gay Mitchell MEP
03/12/2008	MEP Mitchell's €1 billion proposal to help victims of food prices crisis in developing world
28/11/2008	ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: A clear vote in favour of democracy in Zimbabwe. José Ribeiro e Castro MEP - Photos available
28/11/2008	Assemblea parlamentare paritetica ACP-UE Port Moresby (Papa Nuova Guinea)/ ACP-EU Meeting. Riccardo Ventre MEP

SECOND REGIONAL ACP-EU JOINT PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

A European Parliament delegation travelled to Port Vila, Vanuatu, to participate in the 2nd regional ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (29 November-1 December) and meet their counterparts in the Pacific region. Among other topics, the regional JPA focused on the Economic Partnership Agreements with the ACP countries, human rights and good governance, elections and climate change. The EPP-ED group was represented by four Members: Valdis Dombrovskis (Latvia), Filip Kaczmarek (Poland), Armando Veneto (Italy) and Tadeusz Zwiefka (Poland).

Final Communique on the 2nd Regional Meeting of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: Port Vila - Vanuatu

ACP-EU JOINT PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

The 16th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly met in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 24 to 28 November 2008 Economic partnership agreements, action on the world food, financial crisis, climate change were the topics of the meeting...

POLICY

EPP-ED commitments in development cooperation

The equal and universal value of all human beings is a fundamental value upon which all EPP-ED policies are based. It holds within itself a principle of solidarity and a moral responsibility for the preservation of human rights and human dignity across borders, and indeed a responsibility to act whenever and wherever those rights are disregarded... Read more