Policy Coherence for Development: Enhancing the Effectiveness of the EU Development Cooperation

The thesis is focused on the topic of the Policy Coherence for Development in the European Union (EU). The Policy Coherence for Development in the EU aims to ensure that objectives and results of the development cooperation policy of the EU are not undermined by other EU policies having an impact on developing countries and that these other policies support deve-lopment objectives where feasible. The main objective of the thesis is to assess to what extent the EU is willing and able to ensure the Policy Coherence for Development and use it as a means of increasing the effectiveness of its development cooperation, i.e. facilitating the achievement of the development goals set. The paper is divided into three chapters. The first chapter includes a theoretical basis of the study and the evolution the concept of the Policy Coherence for Development in the EU. The chapter then focuses on the implementation of the Policy Coherence for Development on the level of the EU institutions and it makes a compa-rison between different attitudes of the EU Member States. The second chapter deals with the assessement of the coherence of different EU policies with development goals in three speci-fic areas -- trade and finance, food security and migration. This chapter also analyses main impacts of the selected EU policies on the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP). The last chapter is a case study of migration and development nexus in the relations between France and Senegal.