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EU Development Cooperation
Simon Maxwell
Overseas Development Institute
• Facts about EU cooperation
• EU role
• EU policy trends and issues
• Choices / Future direction
The European Commission . . .
• Spends only about 15% of its aid budget in
Asia (approx $1 bn p.a.)
• But the EC and the Member States together
provide about $4.4 bn p.a. to Asia,
equivalent to 27% of all aid to South and
Central Asia and about 29% of all aid to the
Far East and Oceania.
• N.B. New members
What kind of partnership?
Aid
Foreign Policy
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Trade
EU - Asia
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Aid
Trade
Foreign Policy
See
– ASEM
– Blair visits to China and India
• But not treaty-based (cf Cotonou)
The European Consensus On
Development (Feb 2006)
• Poverty reduction as the over-arching
objective;
• Common values (human rights, peace, good
governance etc . . .);
• Common principles (ownership, partnership
etc . . .)
• Effectiveness
• Policy coherence
The EC Development Policy
• Development as a shared competence;
• Added value: global; size; link to trade etc;
• Focus on: trade; regional integration; NR;
infrastructure; water; energy; rural
development; food security; governance;
conflict; human development; HIV/AIDS;
coherence.
The ‘big win’: more money
Financial Perspectives 2007-2013
• 50 bn euros for external action (total budget:
862 bn euros = 1.045% of EU GDP)
• Six main instruments:
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Pre-accession
Stability
Dev’t Cooperation
European Neighbourhood
Humanitarian Aid
Macro-financial assistance
Increasing
Europeanisation
Less
Pro-
More
Pro-
poor
poor
Receding
Europeanisation