Niels Annen was Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office and Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
In episode 21 of the CHAtroom, CHA Director Ralf Südhoff discusses with him the current controversies regarding USAID, humanitarian action and development cooperation, why Niels Annen believes he underestimated the ‘anti-aid’ shift to the right and why he considers an interest-driven justification for international cooperation to be key, the debate about merging GFFO and BMZ as well as his possible future at the UNHCR. [German]
