Abstract
Development and cooperation policies are located at the core of the European Union foreign policy. Not for nothing, the European Union, together with its Member States, is considered the world’s largest aid donor. Despite multiple challenges and failures experienced along these 60 years, the European Union strives to avoid to be blocked by past setbacks or by unresolved current conflicts and envisions new solutions to keep on going: the last initiative is the New Consensus on Development which attempts to align the European Union and the development policies of Member States with the development sustainable goals defined by the United Nations in 2015. This chapter examines the narratives used to launch this project so that the unique of the European political discourse toward cooperation can be identified, that is, the EU’s specific contribution to the global discussion in terms of concepts, approaches, and aid management.
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La Porte, T. (2020). Idiosyncrasy of the European Political Discourse Toward Cooperation. In: Servaes, J. (eds) Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2014-3_83
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