{"id":6199,"date":"2015-01-15T08:14:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T08:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2015-01-15T08:14:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T08:14:48","slug":"watch-out-2015-is-the-european-year-for-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/15\/watch-out-2015-is-the-european-year-for-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out; 2015 is the European Year for Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought you had survived the ESD\u00a0decade, it turns out that 2015 is the\u00a0European Year for Development [EYD2015]. \u00a0<em>Think Global<\/em>, is happy about this. \u00a0Its\u00a0CEO noted in TG's\u00a0first January mailing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"The first 'European Year' on EU external policy is an opportunity to have a conversation about development and issues of global justice with a broader public, people unaware of European development cooperation and not necessarily involved with the NGOs and institutions.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm not sure I quite follow this, but never mind, as we can read of the same on the <a href=\"www.concordeurope.org\/blogs\/seamus-jeffreson-s-blog\/190-the-european-year-for-development-2015-a-new-conversation-with-a-new-public\">blog<\/a>\u00a0by CONCORD Director, Seamus Jeffreson. \u00a0This begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"It's also an opportunity to reflect with a wider public on the changing narrative about 'development' and in particular, why solidarity with the most marginalised and poorest people around the world should remain a priority for us as individuals and for the European Union. \u00a0The opportunity of having the European Year on development issues is accompanied by the challenge of holding this conversation against a backdrop of continuing economic and social hardship in Europe and scepticism with all things emanating from the EU.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, he's right about that, but you also have to be sceptical about reaching a wide audience if you insist on using\u00a0phrases like\u00a0\"the changing narrative\".<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought you had survived the ESD\u00a0decade, it turns out that 2015 is the\u00a0European Year for Development [EYD2015]. \u00a0Think Global, is happy about this. \u00a0Its\u00a0CEO noted in TG's\u00a0first January mailing: \"The first 'European Year' on EU external policy...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}