Once seen as a low salience policy that member states and citizens supported without much debate, EU development policy is now politicised – inside and outside the Union. Christine Hackenesch, Julian Bergmann and Jan Orbie argue that this trend may hamper EU collective action
Head of the Research Programme 'Inter- and Transnational Cooperation' and Co-ordinator of the Africa Group at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
Christine's research focuses on European development policy, European democracy support, EU-Africa relations, and China-Africa cooperation.