How is the coordination between the Union’s development policy and Member States ensured?
Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid are both considered as competences that should be shared between the Union and the Member States (Article 208 TFEU). However, both Development and Humanitarian Assistance are defined as special shared competence since the Member States are not prevented to act on a specific development or humanitarian issue when the EU is active on it already. National Development policies and the EU policy should not only complement each other, they have to reinforce each other. This special status allocated to Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid allows for strong joint EU actions while maintaining bilateral development programmes of the Member States that provide added value. The complementary nature of the shared competence applying to Humanitarian Aid and Development Cooperation allows for a strong interaction with the national public and helps build public support at national level.
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