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EU Development Cooperation
Sven GrimmOverseas 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: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)
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
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?
Also discussed in development cooperation:
• 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
Increasing Europeanisation
Reverting Europeanisation
Less Pro-poor
More Pro-poor