By Anna Hope 

This briefing sets out how, when invested in the right ways, aid can help strengthen the EU’s economic competitiveness, reduce security threats, and lower irregular migration pressures – addressing the EU’s biggest priorities today. If such ‘mutually beneficial’ aid is withdrawn, it creates opportunities for competitors to step in and afford them advantages that the EU will lose. It demonstrates that aid reductions must not be arbitrary but based on a strategy that is informed by the evidence on where greatest mutual benefits lie. 

This paper is part of a collaboration with the Kiel Institute – learn more about this project here.

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