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Who Called Team Europe? The European Union’s Development Policy Response During the First Wave of COVID-19

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  • Aline Burni

    (Deutsches Institut Für Entwicklungspolitik)

  • Benedikt Erforth

    (Deutsches Institut Für Entwicklungspolitik)

  • Ina Friesen

    (Deutsches Institut Für Entwicklungspolitik)

  • Christine Hackenesch

    (Deutsches Institut Für Entwicklungspolitik)

  • Maximilian Hoegl

    (Deutsches Institut Für Entwicklungspolitik)

  • Niels Keijzer

    (Deutsches Institut Für Entwicklungspolitik)

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is a critical juncture for global development. Under the label of “Team Europe”, the EU has sought to mobilize rapid development assistance to support partners in addressing the impacts of the crisis, while promoting joined-up approaches among European actors to assert itself in a changing and competitive geopolitical context. This article assesses how substantive and process-oriented EU development policy norms are reflected in the Union’s global COVID-19 response. Focusing on the EU’s response during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of 2020, the article shows that the EU’s response to this extraordinary crisis consisted of a deepening of EU integration. In so doing, the EU emphasized process-oriented over substantive norms in its development policy.

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  • Aline Burni & Benedikt Erforth & Ina Friesen & Christine Hackenesch & Maximilian Hoegl & Niels Keijzer, 2022. "Who Called Team Europe? The European Union’s Development Policy Response During the First Wave of COVID-19," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 34(1), pages 524-539, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:34:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1057_s41287-021-00428-7
    DOI: 10.1057/s41287-021-00428-7
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