International Public Relations in the EU: Development Cooperation Public Opinion and Public Policies

• Author: Victor Negrescu
• Position: PhD candidate at the National School of Political Science and Administration (SNSPA)
• Pages: 729-742

International Public Rel

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PhD candidate at the Nati

Abstract:

In the context of the

Union and the appearance of a co

it is necessary to understand if w

intergovernmental level and con

still far from reaching the maxi

method of the cooperation for de

the national policies that will en

countries but also by the EU

activities, so necessary for raisin

of achieving the Millennium Dev

Keywords:

Developing count

development aid

1. Introduction

Development aid has become in

forward by the increasingly const

ten years ago it would have been

countries because of the different

the

EU states and institutions to tr

This new reality is in fact determ

Europe even if the economical an

him more self-

centered. In fact if

of supports independent of the e

Slovakians and 82% of

the Fren

issue.

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Beneficiary of the project “Doc toral

European Higher Education Area”, co

Operational Programme Huma

n Resourc

Globalization an

elations

in the EU:

Development Coop

Opinion

and Public Policies

Victor Negrescu

ational School of Political Science and Administrati

victor.negrescu@gmail.com

the growing importance of the cooperation for development

a common growing public opinion agreement supporting this k

f we can talk today about

a true common European consensus

onsidered to be a part of the nation al foreign policies, EU de

aximum of its efficiency. In this paper we try to introduce

development policies an d interpretation of the degree o f com

enable us to appreciate the stages that have to be complete

U to

realize a completely uniform European assistance stra

sing the efficiency of the funds allocated by the EU, but also

evelopment Goals.

unt

ries; Europeanization; public opinion;

international

in the last few years a key issue in the EU foreign

nstructed awareness of

the Europeans on their role

en difficult to think about a common European polic

ent perspectives and interests, it becomes more and

o try to build a common cooperation for developme

rmined by the increasing support that development

and social struggles of the commo

n European citize

t if we look at the European opinion pools we see al

e economical development of the EU states: for e

ench and Romanians believe that development aid

al scholarships supporting research: Competitiveness, quality

co

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funded by the European Union through the European

urces Development 2007

-2013

and Cultural Diversity

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ooperation

Public

ration (SNSPA)

1

,

ent in the European

is kind of initiatives,

sus. Still covered on

development aid is

e a new ev

aluation

ommunitarisation of

eted by the member

strategy and of the

so in the perspective

l public relations

;

gn policy being pushed

le in the world. Even if

olicy on the developing

and more necessary for

ment policy.

ent aid benefits all over

tizen should have made

almost the same levels

r example 89% of the

aid is a very important

lity, and cooperation in the

ean Social Fund, Sectorial