IEP Lunch Debate with Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul: “Europe’s Global Responsibility — Requirements of a European Development Policy”
21 June 2001, 12:30 in the Jean Monnet Building, Lunch Debate with Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, MdB, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development. The minister presented the German initiatives within the EU development policy, the Agreement of Cotonou and the restructuring of EU policy in the area of development cooperation. At the center of this Lunch Debate stood the concept of an integrated effort for crisis prevention, which includes not only questions of poverty, arms exports and trade policy, but also the coordination of development policies at the European and member state level.
