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Budget support is essential in times of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly launched report called Budget Support – Trends and results 2021, shows.

Following the 2021 International Democracy Week, the European Union has announced five actions worth €119.5 million to boost the strong European support to democracy and human rights around the world in 2021.

Join LIVE our #KAPTalks with Kristalina Georgieva, head of IMF who will discuss with Jeffrey Sachs interconnected challenges of recovery, climate change and inequality. The event will be hybrid, physical and online. Join us on 21st September at 14:30

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, the EU, EU Member States and European financial institutions, as Team Europe, have disbursed €34 billion in support to partner countries in addressing the pandemic and its consequences.

Join live our #KAPTalks with Anthony Bebbington of the Ford Foundation who will discuss the extraction of natural resources as a social justice question, particularly in light of COVID-19 pandemic. Join us on 10th September at 14:00 CET / 12:00 GMT.

This regular newsletter covers all important news and analysis on the topics of employment, labour rights and vocational education and training with this edition packed full of interviews, articles, stories, events and much more!

The Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) approved in July eight financial top-ups to ongoing programmes which the Fund finances in the Horn of Africa.

At today's Global Education Summit, the EU and its Member States, as Team Europe, pledged €1.7 billion to the Global Partnership for Education to help transform education systems for more than one billion girls and boys in up to 90 countries.

The Commission welcomes the adoption of the negotiation directives by the Council to negotiate changes to, and support the modernisation of, the 2007 International Coffee Agreement.