The European Union and its member states are the world’s largest providers of development aid, and their thinking is likely to have a significant impact on the framework that the United Nations will adopt for 2015 to 2030. The current framework – the Millennium Development Goals, agreed in 2000 – set specific targets to reduce poverty and under-development by 2015 in areas including child mortality, hunger, disease, sanitation and education.

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