There appears to be some kind of
clash between ministers from the United Kingdom over an alleged plan to divert
several amount of money running into billions of pounds of foreign aid spending
countries in Eastern Europe in return for support in the forthcoming Brexit
negotiations on or before the end of March.
According to sources, top cabinet
ministers and officials are of the opinion that the aid that are being wasted
in Asia and Africa from Britain’s £12bn yearly budget, could rather be given to
countries like Poland, Hungary and the Baltic states.
However, officials at the Department
for International Development regarded such moves as being illegal. Stressing
that under international guidelines, it is only Ukraine an Albania that qualify
for such spending from overseas development, and these are countries outside of
the European Union.
“We don’t set the rules. The OECD
[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] decides which
countries are eligible for ODA [official development assistance] spending,” a
senior government source told the Times. “The eastern European countries in the
EU don’t count.”
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