EU Humanitarian Aid - Challenges Ahead

Recent international developments as well as reforms within the EU itself, especially those connected to the shaping of a Common Foreign and Security Policy and the EU crisis management procedures, show that support for EU humanitarian aid should be further strengthened. The need to make humanitarian aid more visible and better understood remains, in addition to the need to tackle new challenges emerging in this domain. Within the wide-ranging theme of EU Humanitarian Aid - Challenges Ahead, three areas of particular concern formed the basis of more focused discussion during the Conference: Politicisation of aid: Reality or danger? What will be the role of humanitarian aid NGOs in the future? The Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union: an opportunity for humanitarian actors?