Italy has made progress in international cooperation, but needs to do more. That was the message contained in the latest \u201cPeer Review\u201d on Italy conducted by the OECD\u2019s Development Assistance Committee (DAC). The report was presented at a meeting at the Chamber of Deputies attended by Deputy Speaker Marina Sereni, Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli, the Chair of the DAC, Erik Solheim, and the Deputy Director General for Development Cooperation, Fabio Cassese.<\/P>
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New cooperation law after 27 years<\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cFour years are a very long time and we have seen a change of direction \u2013 for the better. Starting with the Monti government, Italy has increased its investment in development cooperation, even during a period of spending cuts\u201d, underscored Pistelli. He explained that \u201cthanks to the DAC recommendations we\u2019ll try to increase our \u2018weight\u2019 at the global level even more. In the meantime, we have a new law on cooperation awaiting approval by the Senate\u2019s Budget Committee: a law that\u2019s taken 27 years. In July, during our EU Presidency, we\u2019ll be holding a Council meeting for Development with the EU ministers in Florence. The message we want to convey is that Italy is fully in touch with these issues, in concrete terms too\u201d, concluded the deputy minister.<\/P> Percentage of GDP invested in public development aid is up but falls short of UN goals<\/STRONG><\/P> According to the report, in 2013 the percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) Italy invested in public development aid increased on the previous year. But it still falls far short of the target of 0.7% set by the United Nations. <\/P> \u201cItaly has done a lot in these 4 years, but needs to increase its weight at the global level even more\u201d, commented Erik Solheim. \u201cIt needs to set up a Development Agency that would deal specifically with cooperation, as well as new and flexible laws\u201d, he added. The reform law currently under discussion \u201cmust focus solely on cooperation, not commercial diplomacy or immigration\u201d, observed Pistelli. \u201cThe problem is finding a vision that reflects a satisfactory compromise for all parties concerned\u201d. <\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy has made progress in international cooperation, but needs to do more. That was the message contained in the latest \u201cPeer Review\u201d on Italy conducted by the OECD\u2019s Development Assistance Committee (DAC). The report was presented at a meeting at the Chamber of Deputies attended by Deputy Speaker Marina Sereni, Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli, […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-13152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-cooperazione-sviluppo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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