For 10 years, the Policy Forum on Development has gathered EU institutions, civil society organisations and local authorities working on EU development cooperation. Amandine Sabourin looks at the added value of the forum and argues that the EU’s engagement with civil society and local authorities needs to find new momentum in light of the changing environment at the European level and globally.
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Eight draft action plans for cooperation with non-EU states on migration and border control were approved by the European Council in October. Documents dealing with Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq and Nigeria, published here, show a chosen path of intensified externalisation of EU border management, and very little commitment to legal migration pathways.