EU Development Cooperation

Simon MaxwellOverseas 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

TradeForeign Policy

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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.

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:– Pre-accession– Stability– Dev’t Cooperation– European Neighbourhood– Humanitarian Aid– Macro-financial assistance

Increasing Europeanisation

Receding Europeanisation

Less Pro-poor

More Pro-poor