Development cooperation in the new EU member states and accession countries

Country information

Bulgaria

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Estonia

Hungary

Latvia

Lithuania

Malta

Poland

Romania

Slovak Republic

Slovenia 

General information 

• Which cooperation between old EU member states and new EU member states? Conclusions from Workshop 2 of the European Meeting of Development Cooperation Platforms on November 15, 2008 (organised by HUMANIS, www.humanis.org, in partnership with TRIALOG; as side event during the European Development Days 2008 in Strasbourg, Nov. 15-17); presented to the European Development Days’ Official Conference on November 16, 2008 by Christine Bedoya, TRIALOG. Read also a summary of the HUMANIS event on the European Development Days' website: http://www.eudevdays.eu/Public/PressRelease.php?ID=2724.

• Challenges of Development Policy for New Member States (NMS). Speech given by Annamária Kékesi, Board Member of CONCORD, at the ALDE seminar (European parliamentary group ALDE - the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) on 12 November 2008. The meeting followed up the EP report written by Lithuanian MEP Danute Budreikaite earlier in the year on the challenges for new member states (see EP resolution from March 2008 below); Further links: European Parliament: http://www.europarl.europa.eu; ALDE group: http://www.alde.eu/

• The challenge of EU Development Cooperation Policy for the new Member States. EP resolution adopted in March 2008. Source: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P6-TA-2008-0097+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN 
   
• Growing pains: development policy in the new Europe, by Simon Lightfoot. In: BOND's April 2008 edition of "The Networker"; http://www.bond.org.uk
   
• Dynamics of EU Development Policy after enlargement, by Simon Lightfoot, University of Leeds, 2008. (This is a slightly revised version of European Development Policy Study Group Discussion Paper 35, visit http://www.edpsg.org/index.pl or use the direct link http://www.edpsg.org/Documents/DP35.doc)

• ODA priority territories of the new EU member states, November 2007.

• Special EC Eurobarometer: Citizens of the new EU Member States and Development Aid, September 2007. Source: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_286_en.pdf 

• Development Cooperation in the New member states from NGO perspective. Speech given by Marian Caucik, chairman of the Slovak NGDO Platform at the Public Hearing on NEW EU DONORS, European Parliament (EP), Committee on Development, 30 January 2007. For more information on the hearing, please turn to the website of the EP.

• The EU’s “emerging donors”: New players in development cooperation. Presentation given by Ben Slay, Director, UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre, at Public Hearing on NEW EU DONORS, European Parliament, Committee on Development, 30 January 2007.