ABSTRACT
The EU’s general and educational relations with Australia and New Zealand (NZ, Aotearoa) 3 are well developed, in terms of a structural dialogue based on a widening perspective, by means of which both countries are now more engaged with more individual Member States, as well as with the EU institutions, than ever before, and are pursuing this engagement in more sector-specific areas than before. The evolution of Australia’s and New Zealand’s EU engagement from the time of the Commission’s first recognition of the need for an official dialogue 4 shows a movement away from ‘eclipsing’, and single-issue, concerns, such as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the fallout from the UK’s EU accession (1974), to broader dialogue, including, especially, Higher Education (Wiessala, 2004a; Murray and Zolin, 2012).
