Külügyi Szemle - A Teleki László Intézet Külpolitikai Tanulmányok Központja folyóirata - 2003 (2. évfolyam)
2003 / 2. szám - EURÓPA - Fodor Erika: Partnerek a fejlődésben - az Európai Unió fejlesztési politikája
Résumé Partners in development the new EU Development Policy In the not too distant future Hungary will become a member-state of the European Union. All EU-members are traditionally donor countries, furthermore the Community has its own development cooperation programs towards the underdeveloped world. The main principles of the development policy of the EU were the same as the ones decided by the OECD Development Assistance Committee. Hungary has now a emerging donor status, as the other candidate-countries to EU and prepares to built up the national institutional and financial capacities, because a EU-member-state-status includes an own international development cooperation program. As the Regular Report (2002) stated, "Preliminary work has started to set up the organizational and institutional framework necessary for development cooperation within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the second half of 2002. A detailed budgetary plan for the Fund of the International Development Co-operation is under preparation and will probably be approved as part of the State Budget for 2003... Total bilateral and multilateral external assistance given by Hungary to developing countries in 2001 amounted to 29 million Euros (20.5 million for official aid (OA) and 8.5 million Euros for official development assistance (ODA)." This policy and the whole activity of the EU is not well-known in Hungary. The article aims at summarizing the main characteristics of the EU development cooperation, which has changed a lot of in the last few years. The Community's common development co-operation policy was adopted in November 2000. European community aid has existed since the European Economic Community was established in 1957. All six original member states accepted that measures to develop internal economic integration should be reinforced by mechanism for pooling resources for external assistance, to be managed aid programs. Now, total aid from the European Union, both from the Member States individually and the portion managed by the European Commission, accounts for 55 % of the total world aid. The EU is a highly influential player in international relations. The EU's international influence and its effectiveness is the greatest when the three elements of its external policy - political, trade and development co-operation - are used in ways that are mutually supportive. The evolution of the EU's partnership and co-operation agreements with different regions, as well as overall political framework for its development co-operation, has happened as a result of different factors. This includes both internal and external levels. Europe's external co-operation policies have always been broad and multifaceted, but not always effective. The article shows the characteristics of the new policy. Its objective is the eradication of poverty, in partnership with the partner-countries and with better coordination of the international donors. 168 Külügyi Szemle
