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A world player - The European Union's external relations   
Eradicating poverty through sustainable development
More than half the money spent to help poor countries comes from the European Union and its member states, making it the world's biggest aid donor. But development policy is about more than providing clean water and surfaced roads, important though these are. The Union also uses trade to drive development by opening its markets to exports from poor countries and by encouraging them to trade more with each other.
Development and relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States :
Link: http://ec.europa.eu/development/index_en.cfm
Deeper pockets
More than half the money spent to help poor countries comes from the European Union and its member states, making it the world's biggest aid donor. But development policy is about more than providing clean water and surfaced roads, important though these are. The Union also uses trade to drive development by opening its markets to exports from poor countries and by encouraging them to trade more with each other.
Link: http://europa.eu/pol/dev/overview_en.htm
Water for life
Targeting a key driver of the EU's Co-operation with the developing world, the most prominent goal of Water Initiative is to halve, by 2015, the number of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation, estimated at over one and two billion people respectively. The second trust is to generalise the adoption and practice of integrated river basin approaches based on knowledge and innovation.
Link: http://ec.europa.eu/research/water-initiative/pdf/water-for-life_en.pdf
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