Finance, Economic Planning and Developement minister Goodall Gondwe has clarified that the European Union (EU) did not make any pledges resume direct budgetary support to the country. Gondwe told Parliament last Friday that government expects additional budgetary support from the EU. But the Finance Minister has now said EU had not confirmed it will release budgetary support. […]
European Union (EU) could resume budgetary support to Malawi if the results of verification exercise of the agreed performance target is met. EU has engaged a team of independent consultatnt to take verifiactaion exercice on any evidence of achievements on the agreed targets it was given for the multilateral body to resume direct budget support […]
President Professor Peter Mutharika Friday commended the European Union (EU) for the development and humanitarian aid rendered to the country. Speaking when he held an audience with EU delegation in Lilongwe at Kamuzu Palace, Mutharika said EU is one of the biggest partners Malawi has since 1975 and the country has benefited a lot from […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has said European Union is resuming its budgetary support by the end of the year whilst the World Bank will do the same next year. Gondwe said the European Union has already committed US30 million for the budgetary support whilst the World Bank has committed US80 […]
Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) does not threaten Malawi, according to High Commissioner to Lilongwe, Micheal Nevin who has reassured the country’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Francis Kasaila on Friday after British voters have chosen to leave the EU. The reverberations of the Brexit vote were felt in Malawi as many people questioned what […]
Finance minister Goodall Gondwe says government is not surprised with the European Union (EU) stance not to resume budgetary support to Malawi national budget, saying this was expected. In an interview, Gondwe said the EU has pulled out its budgetary support from all African countries except Mozambique. “This is their new policy so they should […]
European Union (EU), one of Malawi’s largest donors, has ruled reinstating budgetary support any time sooner even the country meets the IMF extended credit facility. A senior EU official from Brussels who is in the country said Friday, Malawi has a lot to do to ensure that donor money is not looted as was the […]
Malawi has finally lost out an K80 billion European Union aid package after the government failed to pass the Access to Information Bill (ATI) whose deadline is expiring midnight on December 31, 2015. Minister of Information Jappie Mhango echoed President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday that government will not be pushed to pass the bill. “The […]
The European Union (EU) has pumped in over 6 billion kwacha to improve sugarcane production among small holder farmers for two years in Chikwawa with hope to achieve economic growth at house hold level. EU Head of Delegation, Ambassador Marchal German said he was confident that the Milling factory, Illovo sugar limited will make correct […]
Head of European Union (EU) delegation to Malawi , Marchel Gerrmann on Thursday urged the Malawi Government to push for enactment of access to information Bill (ATI) into law. Gerrmann was speaking in Lilongwe during a luncheon which the ambassador organised for the members of Bwaila Media Club(BMC). “The law will help to make government accountable to […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB)’s vice president for Africa Pim van Ballekom arrived in Malawi on Thursday for a three-day visit to assess projects financed by the bank. A statement from the European Union (EU) said van Ballekom would inspect successfully completed water projects supported by the EIB in Malawi. “The bank has supported long […]
European Union and Malawi government have signed an agreement for future cooperation amounting to €560 million under the National Indicative Programme (NIP), until 2020. In a statement issued Friday in Brussels, the cooperation will focus on three main sectors: governance, sustainable agriculture and secondary education and vocational training. Commissioner for International Development and Cooperation Neven Mimica says […]
At the Women In Parliaments Global Forum Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, former Malawian President Joyce Banda spoke exclusively with EurActiv’s Rick Zednik about the support she received from EU officials in rebuilding her country’s economy. “For the past 15 years, corruption had been going on, 30 percent of our resources were being stolen,” Banda […]
There is a new man at the helm of the European Union Delegation to Malawi. He is Marchel Gerrmann, a Dutch national. Gerrmann, who is also the Ambassador of the EU, comes at a time Western donor nations and agencies have suspended budgetary support to Malawi in reaction to ‘cashgate’, the systematic plunder of public […]
The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Malawi and Head of Delegation, Marchel Gerrmann on Monday presented his letters of credentials to President Peter Mutharika, at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe in an event that marked his official assumption of duty. Ambassador Gerrmann was appointed as Head of the EU Delegation to Malawi on 1 September 2014 […]
The European Union has committed €3.8 million towards support to agricultural research and education in Malawi as part of its investment in the knowledge economy of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) member states. Malawi joins around 200 partnerships throughout the ACP world which together promote access to knowledge, reinforce capacities and foster innovations. Aquaculture and […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika and European Union Commissioner for Development, Adris Piebalgs, have discussed the need to finalise a non-budgetary aid package amounting to 600 million Euro over a period of seven years. The meeting was held on Tuesday in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly Hall in New York on the sidelines of the […]
Outgoing EU Ambassador and Head of Delegation to Malawi, Alexander Baum, has congratulated President Peter Mutharika on getting married. Baum spoke during his farewell party in the capital, Lilongwe. Mutharika and Gertrude Maseko were on Saturday declared husband and wife after they took wedding vows “to love and cherish” at CCAP’s St Michaels and All […]