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A busy week in the UK media
It’s been a busy week in the UK press for us development folk. There has been a series of articles across the British media on development ahead of the General Election later this year, which started on Tuesday with commentary from Kevin Watkins on the Guardian website. This was followed by an editorial from the Times the next day titled ‘In Development’ about spending 0.7% of the UK’s Gross National Income on overseas aid. This came out of the Times’s Bronwen Maddox doing a live web briefing with Andrew Mitchell MP, the Shadow Secretary for International Development.
The news coverage continued today with the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown writing in the Independent. The piece sets out the case on the importance of 2010 as the year to reach agreement on the Millennium Development Goals and to make a global action plan at the UN Summit in September. At the same time the Financial Times and others have been reporting on the speech made by David Cameron (leader of the Conservatives) this morning on national security and development.
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18/01/2010 at 11:24 am
Let´s hope that the german government follows this example and finally fullfills the given promises!