What is More Important: Ballot Boxes for Afghans or Bread for Somalis?

EU will pay more more money to elections in Afghanistan than food aid to the whole of East and the Horn of Africa. NGOs and humanitarian analysts have decried the imbalanced and inappropriate response of the EU to human suffering the world over.

While the European countries in earlier days were proud to show their bi-lateral assistance to the least developed countries especially in Africa, they do hide their activities and funds since several years behind a so called European policy and the non-transparent "European" funding.

The real assistance therefore has gone from "always too little, always too late" to hardly existing, while still the individual countries publish proudly their "contributions to the needy through the European Union" - whereby hardly anything arrives.

The EU will now contribute 40 million Euro ($56.9 million) for August's presidential elections in Afghanistan as part of the efforts of the European Union to help ensure that the elections are free and fair. Part of this money will go to the EU's election observation mission, and part of it will go to the electoral commission of the Afghan government, said Christiane Hohmann, the commissioner's spokeswoman.

At the same time the EU Commission will only contribute 22 million Euro for food aid in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya und Uganda together.

Source:Ecoterra, June 7, 2009

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