Tuesday 24 June 2008

Dynamics of EU Development Policy after enlargement

The enlargement of the EU from 15 to 27 member states has the potential to affect the whole direction and shape of EU policy with regard to development - both because of different priorities of the new Central and Eastern European (CEE) states and the issue of aid diversion to new and poorer states. A research paper by Simon Lightfoot, University of Leeds, examines whether the CEE states have a fundamentally different approach to development and developing countries and whether this will lead to pressure to shift the policy in new directions over the longer term.

Download the research paper "Dynamics of EU Development Policy after enlargement" from: http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/lightfoot_eu-dev-policy-after-enlargement.pdf (This is a slightly revised version of European Development Policy Study Group Discussion Paper 35, visit http://www.edpsg.org/index.pl or use the direct link http://www.edpsg.org/Documents/DP35.doc)

See also the article of Simon Lightfoot in BOND's April 2008 edition of "The Networker": Growing pains: development policy in the new Europe, Link: http://www.bond.org.uk/News/growingpains.htm.

Information provided by Simon Lightfoot, University of Leeds

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