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Learning Module
8.0
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8. EuroMed Progressive Policy:
II. Strategies of Cooperation and Development
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Academic Coordinator
Abstract
The European Union Development
Policy is aimed to eradicate poverty, to foster democracy and human rights,
and to promote harmonious and progressive integration of developing countries
in the world economy. Development is also an important component of the so-called
Wider Europe-Neighbourhood Policy, and a specific area of work in the Barcelona
Process aimed to create a Partnership between the EU and the Mediterranean
Countries. These policies are supported by a number of instruments, such
as Financial and Technical Assistance, trade agreements, and a number of
programs aimed to create networks of civil society and decentralized actors.
Nevertheless, these programs are faced up with a number of challenges in
order to achieve its stated aims: the course will analyse the problems of
policy coherence among development aid programs and trade, migration, security
or other foreign policy interests, and the obstacles posed by the political
and social structures in the partners of the EuroMed economic and political
space.
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Course Objectives
- To know the origins, evolution,
aims and instruments of EU development Policy
- To analyse the relationship between foreign aid, trade and other policy
instruments of the EU in the Euromed context
- To analyse the evolution of the Euromed Partnership and the Barcelona Process
in the field of development policies
- To discuss alternative proposals to achieve the political, economic and
social goals of the EuroMed partnership
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Programmatic Contents
01. Development Policies
and trends in the global context: The Milleniumm Development Goals (MDGs),
the Paris Declaration and the specific situation of the Middle-Income Countries
of the Mediterranean
02. The Development Policy of the EU: Goals, strategies, instruments and
resources. Development Aid, trade preferences, trade agreements, and financial
instruments. The European Consensus on Development.
03. The Neighbourhood Policy and the Barcelona Process: Evolution, situation,
and perspectives.
04. Competing Goals and Policy Coherence in the EuroMed Partnership: Trade,
development, migration, security, democracy and stability.
05. Proposals for development and co-operation in the EuroMed area
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Teaching Units »»»
8.1
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The global agenda of development co-operation: the MDGs, the Paris
Declaration and the aid architecture
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8.2
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a) The EU development policy: objectives, rules, instruments and
processes of reform
b) The “europeanisation” of development co-operation policies: the European
Consensus on Development
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8.3
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a) The Neighbourhood Policy and the Barcelona Process: foundations,
aims and evolution of the EuroMed Partnership
b) Policy areas for co-operation and development: economic and social development,
trade, migration, security, democracy and human rights. The Policy coherence
issue.
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