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The future of European Union funding to the United Nations system: catalyst or cataclysm?

Keijzer, Niels / Ronny Patz
External Publications (2026)

in: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Financing the UN Development System (Annual Report No. 12), New York: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and the United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office, 157-163

ISBN: 978-91-991330-1-0
DOI: https://doi.org/https://financingun.report/annual-report/keeping-promise-2026

EU funding has become an important pillar of the UN system’s operational work and provides a basis for the EU to engage as an actor in its own right in UN governance structures. Consequently, negotiations over the EU’s next long-term budget for 2028–34 will help shape both future EU funding to the UN system and the EU’s broader support for global multilateralism

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