The EU and the developing world: partnership, poverty, politicisation

Abstract

This chapter reviews the evolution of development policy in the European Union since the Treaty of Rome. Between the 1950s and the 1990s, EU development policy could be characterised mainly as a post-colonial policy. The Lome Convention, hailed as a model for North-South cooperation for its emphasis on partnership, gave the EU a distinctive role in the international arena. Since the turn of the century, EU development policy has gone under a number of transformations. On the one hand, the Cotonou Agreement combined traditional development measures with the new political objectives. On the other hand, there has been an attempt to federalise the policies of the Member States around a common vision on development. More generally, the EU has used development policy as part of its wider external relations agenda in an attempt to establish itself as an influential global actor. However, there have been no signs that it has shifted away from the fight against world poverty, though the policy space for developing countries has significantly been reduced.

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