EU DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION POLICIES TOWARDS NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES

Victor Negrescu ()
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Victor Negrescu: Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, Romania

A chapter in EURINT Proceedings 2013, 2013, vol. 1, pp 271-283 from Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Abstract: In the absence of a strong common foreign and military policy, the European Union has decided to promote itself through means and international actions capable of highlighting its values and development model. One of the means employed by the EU and the member countries is the development cooperation policy used to sustain the improvement of social and economical conditions of developing and transition countries. The aid given by the EU member countries also helped the development of many new member countries and today this assistance should rise by 2015 to 0.7% of the GDP of the member countries. Our paper will focus on the evaluation of the development cooperation policies towards the Eastern neighbouring countries, by evaluating the dimension and the impact of this assistance, but also the donors and their interests. The purpose is to see if the EU development cooperation policy is part of the soft power action of the European Union and if this method is successful in promoting the EU model and assuring the development of the neighbouring countries.

Keywords: development cooperation; neighbourhood policy; international public relations; public policies; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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