The European community's MEDA aid programme: A strategic instrument of civilian power?

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 347-363

  Holden, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

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EID: 85050371427     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54648/eerr2003024     Document Type: Review

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18. DG Development, DG Relex and Europeaid Cooperation Office, Interservice Agreement, June 2001.
19. This could in theory be analogous to the 'networking of expertise' for a very different policy area described in C. Piana, 'The EU's Decision-Making Policy in the Common Foreign and Security policy: The Case of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia' (2002) 7 EFA Rev, pp. 224-225.
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