How to spend €89.2 billion on international cooperation - ECDPM

How to spend €89.2 billion: Early developments in international cooperation programming

The European Commission has proposed the creation of a ‘Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument’ worth €89.2 billion – 75% of which will be spent on political cooperation with partner countries and regions. Programming such an instrument will not be an easy task. Alisa Herrero, Andrew Sherriff, Mariella Di Ciommo and Sanne Thijssen from the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) take a look at how the EU institutions are preparing for it.