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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.)
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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
EU - Asia • 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.
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
Increasing Europeanisation Less Pro-poor More Pro-poor Receding Europeanisation