ABSTRACT
The literature on European integration and even on the EU’s foreign policy is often surprisingly light on the subject of relations with developing countries. This is true for a variety of reasons, including the general inward-looking tendency of the EU, as evidenced in the agenda of the intergovernmental conference in 2000, which focused almost entirely on its own internal reform. As is too often the case in constituent policy-making for the EU, foreign and development policy took a back seat in the deliberations.
