{"id":103150,"date":"2017-05-19T02:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T06:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103150"},"modified":"2017-05-19T02:04:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T06:04:42","slug":"phl-rejection-of-eu-aid-not-a-policy-pernia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/19\/phl-rejection-of-eu-aid-not-a-policy-pernia\/","title":{"rendered":"PHL rejection of EU aid not a policy\u2014Pernia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103151\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17362723_10155989721112222_7678616457861812634_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103151\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17362723_10155989721112222_7678616457861812634_n.jpg\" alt=\"Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia on Thursday downplayed the country\u2019s decision to reject millions of dollars in aid from the European Union. (Photo: National Economic and Development Authority\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17362723_10155989721112222_7678616457861812634_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17362723_10155989721112222_7678616457861812634_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17362723_10155989721112222_7678616457861812634_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia on Thursday downplayed the country\u2019s decision to reject millions of dollars in aid from the European Union. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NEDAhq\/photos\/p.10155989721112222\/10155989721112222\/?type=1&amp;opaqueCursor=AbqKbnRdZjo4uQkg3YRlt8y3nERfF3aMCic7koj21mLsGxruzBbDYu7OhV4WxW4VbGv7BAQ4dk12vNA_xTLYTHrw7THLrDalFDfF2573w7t_d2QyeCGMFL7oTKI-aGJQQQA-R8zVKmLGq3s8TAGwQT9Jy0tu6iOCRB6GldUUr9KluywWxpVPzuRURsR7W4q2f93nWsiGH220m4J5d2tki-gFm7pjimyVYNVpLAS6YmsHYag56KVeh8gqT3ZlYAErf2YLnOi7ED9GkI6fpiGlag7SkBjoOYSLFMqLoU_X_JQAMvznaNjqfXdJYmk92iWJVDqJBjTGI-YOTLPVPXyIt9R8_7B4ZyQaVk-jd67yklG9EmJScFAG2guUAI8hHDDgQkc&amp;theater\">National Economic and Development Authority\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia on Thursday downplayed the country\u2019s decision to reject millions of dollars in aid from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a policy decision, this is not going to be customary, it\u2019s a one-time act,\u201d Pernia told reporters, noting the rejection came amid EU criticism over issues concerning human rights in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>He said grants coming from other countries can compensate for whatever is lost from a rejected EU grant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not worried too much\u2026 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to remain as such,\u201d added Pernia, also the director general of National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).<\/p>\n<p>The EU was the Philippines\u2019 eighth biggest source of official development assistance (ODA) and grants in 2016, with aid reaching USD 217 million.<\/p>\n<p>Top ODA and grants providers last year were Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB).<\/p>\n<p>For his part, acting Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesman Robespierre Bolivar said the Philippines and EU can still work together to improve the process of their development cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is room to consult jointly on how to improve the process, on how to improve the accountability,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bolivar stressed that development cooperation between donors and country recipients worldwide is an evolving process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia on Thursday downplayed the country\u2019s decision to reject millions of dollars in aid from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[12460],"class_list":["post-103150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-ernesto-pernia","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}