Video: Hot autumn for EU development cooperation
September 25, 2009 - Louise Stoddard
In this brief video commentary, Paul Engel, Director of European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), shares a number of additional reflections on the basis of the article Shaping Europe’s International Role published on The Broker website with Simon Maxwell, Dirk Messner, and Pierre Schori. His comments particularly focus on what the possible ratification of the Lisbon Treaty could mean for European development cooperation policy and practice, with particular attention to the interface between having a more unified EU foreign policy and ensuring that European policies are coherent with the Treaty's development objectives.
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Europe's International Role
- Blog post: The Barroso II Commission: one small step for European development policy (March 08, 2010)
- Blog post: Four institutes joined forces to call for new beginnings in European Development Cooperation (February 24, 2010)
- Blog post: Article by Otto Holman: "Europe's moment of truth" (December 16, 2009)
- Blog post: How can the new European Commission make further progress on Policy Coherence for Development? (December 03, 2009)
- Blog post: New Commissioners and ominous footnotes (November 30, 2009)
- Blog post: The European External Action Service: the 29th EU donor? (November 19, 2009)
- Blog post: Judith Sargentini: Viva article 208, down with reality (November 09, 2009)
- Blog post: The End of the Beginning? (November 05, 2009)
- Blog post: EU change–makers discussing the implications of a ratified Lisbon Treaty for the EU’s external action architecture (October 28, 2009)
- Blog post: Collecting signatures (October 16, 2009)
- Blog post: Institutional change and paradigm shift? (October 07, 2009)
- Blog post: EU development cooperation after the Irish “Yes”: is anyone interested? (October 06, 2009)
- Comment: EUChange - EU's external actions architecture (October 05, 2009)
- Blog post: Ratifying Lisbon: what could it mean for 'the field'? (October 01, 2009)
- Blog post: A comment on 'Shaping Europe’s international role' (September 29, 2009)
- Blog post: Mikaela Gavas: Getting the EU’s development architecture right! (September 24, 2009)

