As the U.S. and other Western countries pull back from foreign aid, the European Union is trying to position itself as the grown-up still showing up. In a new global health strategy unveiled Wednesday, the European Commission cast the EU as a steady partner for developing countries at a moment when global health funding is shrinking and becoming increasingly transactional. “The EU has been and will remain a credible, reliable, principled and predictable partner on global health,” said Jozef