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3 - Europe, Decolonisation and the Challenge of Developing Countries

from Part I - Critical Junctures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2023

Mathieu Segers
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
Steven Van Hecke
Affiliation:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Summary

Development policy is currently one of the pillars of external action of the European Union (EU). The volume of official development assistance disbursed by the EU and its member states makes the EU one of the world’s largest donors. Despite its significance today, development assistance was not discussed in the meetings of the Spaak Committee in 1955–6 and was only later placed on the table during negotiations for the EEC Treaty.

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Print publication year: 2023

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