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Picture taken at the 2025 financing for development conference in Seville Spain. Inside the conference centre, a man carrying a ladder walks in front of a screen showing a livestream of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's address.

Developing development: Six ways to rethink European foreign aid

Global commitment to development assistance is far from where it was a decade ago. Off the back of the International Conference on Financing for Development, European policymakers should look towards adapting their approach to this new reality

Pragmatic partners: The EU’s new model for engagement with South Africa

The EU and South Africa are fresh off the back of their first mutual summit in seven years. Pretoria remains committed to its policy of strategic ambiguity, while the EU took the chance to further its green and industrial ambitions via a new partnership model