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This study assesses the extent to which policy-making processes in the EU Council provide sufficient scope for development inputs to be made in 12 key policy areas: trade, environment, climate change, security, agriculture, fisheries, social dimension of globalisation, employment and decent work, migration, research and innovation, information society, transport and energy.
The study also analyses the policy-making processes in the European Commission, as the institution that initiates and defends most of the policy proposals being discussed in the EU Council. Its findings point to the highly segregated character of EU policy-making and provide instructive insights into the internal challenges the EU will need to address in order to fulfil its goal of achieving greater coherency in its (external) policy-making.
To strengthen policy coherence for development (PCD), the study advances six proposals for structural reform as well as an extended set of specific recommendations. In providing an in-depth analysis and mapping of EU institutional processes, the study is potentially of interest to anyone who aspires to influence or participate in EU policy-making, as well as to those with a special interest in development matters or on EU institutional reform questions and policy coherence in general.