LIMA - Peru is one of the economically fastest growing countries of Latin-America. Still, inequality stays high and social conflicts are raging throughout the country.
In March 2013, a free trade agreement with the European Union will come into force. Why Peru? And what does free trade bring the Peruvians?
Wies Willems sought it out for MO* Magazine, with support of the Pascal Decroos Fund.
How generous is the EU: development aid only for the rich?
ANKARA - When you think of development aid, you think of poor countries. But the biggest receiver of EU development aid happens to be the 18th biggest economy of the world: Turkey. In 2013, Turkey received 2.4 billion Euros...
BRUSSELS - In recent years, the European Union has emerged at a dizzying pace as a global military player. Since 2003, Brussels has deployed soldiers to troubled regions while London, Paris and Berlin have charted the course, albeit without agreeing on the direction to take. Could a fully-fledged European army be in the making?
BRUSSELS / LILONGWE – In September 2025, the Flemish Government abruptly pulled the plug on its bilateral development cooperation with Malawi. For twenty years, Flanders had been investing in agriculture and food security there, but the cooperation fell victim to a round of budget cuts.