More than 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray in famine: UN analysis

The Committee on Budgets will hold a debate with the EU Agencies Network Chair, Hans Bruyninckx, European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Director, Andrea Ammon, and European Medicines Agency Director, Emer Cooke, on 14 July. The aim is to go over the agencies’ priorities, outlook and budgetary needs following the publication of the draft EU budget for 2022, and to discuss the enhanced role that the agencies have played in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Committee on Development will discuss the global humanitarian and food security situation with UN World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley, on 13 July. According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises, the number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent assistance hit a five-year high in 2020. The debate will feed into the Committee’s work on an upcoming report on food security in developing countries.