European Union development assistance programmes: territorial aid allocation

The article deals with EU’s development aid allocation. For the sake of its own interests EU adjusts aid programs, that preserve though regional features. Based on geographic criteria, aid programs’ priorities and EU’s interests, recipients are classified into three groups: ACP countries, pre-accession countries and participants of Eastern and Mediterranean Partnerships. In ACP countries, that include least-developed countries, EU aims at economic and politic expansion by facilitation to institutional building according to the western pattern. While providing assistance to participants of Eastern and Mediterranean Partnerships EU seeks to sustain its own security by support of friendly governments and safe key-products imports. What concerns pre-accession countries, the main target is alignment in political, economic and legal spheres.

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