Speeches
World Food Day: Joint statement by Commissioners Andris Piebalgs (Development aid) and Kristalina Georgieva (Humanitarian aid)
16/10/2014
European Commission Statement Brussels, 16 October 2014 Today's World Food Day is an opportunity to reflect on how European Union aid is alleviating the world's greatest solvable problem: hunger. As we are about to pass on the work on humanitarian aid and development to the next European Commission, it is...
Speech on the occasion of the signing of the EU Caribbean Investment Facility ![pdf pdf](/wel/images/doc_icons/f_pdf_16.gif)
10/10/2014
co-financed IDB loans for the Water Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure Improvement Programme and the Power Utility Upgrade Programme
Washington, 10 October 2014
Speech by Commissioner Piebalgs at the Policy Forum for Development ![pdf pdf](/wel/images/doc_icons/f_pdf_16.gif)
01/10/2014
Panel session on post-2015, Brussels, 1 October 2014
Speech - Creating an "energy revolution" across the developing world
01/10/2014
European Commission [Check Against Delivery] Andris PIEBALGS European Commissioner for Development Speech - At the meeting of the Sustainable Energy for All Access Committee Brussels, 1 October 2014 Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me begin by extending a very warm welcome to you all.
Discours délivré par le Commissaire Andris Piebalgs à l’occasion de la projection du film « Virunga » au Parlement européen ![pdf pdf](/wel/images/doc_icons/f_pdf_16.gif)
01/10/2014
Bruxelles, le 1er octobre 2014
Putting human rights at the heart of development ![pdf pdf](/wel/images/doc_icons/f_pdf_16.gif)
24/09/2014
Side event on “Rights-Based Approach – a contribution for the post 2015”, UNGA Ministerial Week, New York, 24 September 2014
Engaging with vulnerable countries through better adaptation and resilience action ![pdf pdf](/wel/images/doc_icons/f_pdf_16.gif)
23/09/2014
The Multilateral and Multi-Stakeholder Session on Resilience, Adaptation and DRR, UNGA Ministerial Week, New York, 23 September 2014
Still on time to achieve universal primary education ![pdf pdf](/wel/images/doc_icons/f_pdf_16.gif)
23/09/2014
The Forum: 2015 Education Countdown: Failure is Not an Option, UNGA
Ministerial Week, New York, 23 September 2014
A Europe-wide response to the Ebola epidemic
15/09/2014
European Commission Statement Brussels, 15 September 2014 Statement by EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgieva and EU Commissioner for Health, Tonio Borg, following the High Level Event to coordinate the response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa: The EU...