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EU Development Cooperation

EU Development Cooperation. Sven Grimm Overseas Development Institute. Facts about the EU cooperation EU role EU policy trends and issues Choices / Future direction. EU Role. Raison d’être of the EU:

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EU Development Cooperation

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  1. EU Development Cooperation Sven Grimm Overseas Development Institute

  2. Facts about the EU cooperation • EU role • EU policy trends and issues • Choices / Future direction

  3. EU Role Raison d’être of the EU: Peace and reconciliation in Europe - by means of supranational institutions for (economic) cooperation • Ext. relations as historical “spill-over” of integration • Traditional bias for partnership relations, regionalism • Poverty reduction is but one EU goal – others are: • integration into the world market • sustainable economic and social development • and promotion of human rights, democracy, rule of law (Cotonou: also good governance)

  4. TRENDS in EU aid Increase of aid channelled through the Commission(up to ca. 11% of all global ODA) ‘Benchmarking’ of bilateral aid (Monterrey commitment: at least 0.33% of GNP by 2006) Relative decline in EDF – in 2003, more than 2/3 of assistance was via budget Discussion on Financial Perspectives 2007-2013 and on EDF Budgetisation

  5. Financial Perspective 2007-2013 • Cap on EU expenditure – with effects on external assistance? • Proposed reduction of instruments – away from regional approach? • ‘Stability’ instrument – foreign policy vs. development fund? • Budgetisation of EDF – how to safeguard development funds? – What about the partnership principle?

  6. Trade seen as tool in development Effects of integration in other policies Agriculture, Fisheries, Consumer protection, Migration, etc. Common Foreign and Security Policy Enlargement European Parliament gains power Also discussed in development cooperation:

  7. Increasing Europeanisation Less Pro-poor More Pro-poor Reverting Europeanisation

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