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L'Évolution de l'approche du développement promue par la Communauté Européenne : Les cas des partenariats internes et des partenariats externes relatifs aux pays du sud et de l'est de la Méditerranée et aux pays d'Afrique des Caraïbes et du Pacifique
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Auteur / Autrice : Lotfi Arfaoui
Direction : Emmanuel Jos
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Droit public
Date : Soutenance en 2009
Etablissement(s) : Antilles-Guyane

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The notion of partnership emerged gradually at the heart of the approach to development of the European Community, on both the intra-and extra-Community levels. First, this notion seemed secondary as a basic principle of the structural actions [since the 1988 reform of the European Structural Funds] whose objective was economic and social cohesion. Then, the principle proved to be in search of global. . . Territorial. . . Environmental. . . Cohesion, etc. The objective of the rationale was the achievement of political cohesion and Union as the ultimate purpose in the process of European integration. At the same time, reference to the notion of partnership began to take on new dimensions in the relationships between the EC and the non-European associated third-countries under the cover of the association (Art. 310 T CE – ex art. 238 T CE). This notion, introduced in the relationships between the EC and Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries since the 1995 Barcelona multilateral Process, continued [since the 2000 Cotonou Agreement] to permeate ACP-CE relationships. Indeed, this notion appeared in the relationships with associated third-countries as a catch all. Judging from the mixed results of the economic and social development of the Southern partners, the realization of a Free Trade Zone [FTZ] remains a minimalist, ambiguous objective