EU normative determinants for the provision of Official Development Assistance: the perspective of European emerging donors

Abstract

This text describes the influence of the European Union’s regulations on the member states’ development cooperation. The article identifies and comments on relevant norms from the two key legal agreements on which the EU is based: the Treaty on European Union, and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. It also highlights the content and show’s possible implication of subsidiary EU acts, that are included in the acquis, and need to be accepted by every country willing to join the EU. Currently, the leading and most comprehensive document regulating EU’s development cooperation is the new European consensus on development from 2017, which, formally, is just a non-binding joint statement of the EU institutions and governments. The goal of the text is to show the impact of the EU’s norms, including those non-legally binding, with regard to the creation, and further evolution, of development assistance donors.