ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role and influence of the European Parliament (EP) in the EU’s international development cooperation. More specifically, it analyses to what extent and in what ways the EP has managed to weigh upon the programming and implementation of the development assistance provided by the EU institutions. In doing so, it provides a brief historical overview of the EU’s development policy and shows how the involvement of the EP has gradually increased.
It therefore distinguishes between the EU’s general development policy and its relations with the Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP) countries as well as between the EP’s formal and informal powers.
