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EU Development Cooperation

Explore the role and policy trends of the European Commission in development cooperation, focusing on aid, trade, and foreign policy with Asia. Learn about the European Consensus on Development, EC Development Policy, and financial perspectives for 2007-2013.

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EU Development Cooperation

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  1. EU Development Cooperation Simon Maxwell Overseas Development Institute

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

  3. 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

  4. What kind of partnership? ?

  5. EU - Asia • Aid • Trade • Foreign Policy • See • ASEM • Blair visits to China and India • But not treaty-based (cf Cotonou)

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. The ‘big win’: more money

  9. Financial Perspectives 2007-2013 • 50 bn euros for external action (total budget: 862 bn euros = 1.045% of EU GDP) • Six main instruments: • Pre-accession • Stability • Dev’t Cooperation • European Neighbourhood • Humanitarian Aid • Macro-financial assistance

  10. Increasing Europeanisation Less Pro-poor More Pro-poor Receding Europeanisation

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