The study "An Assessment of the Balancing of EU Development Objectives with Other Policies and Priorities", to which Ecologic Institutes scientists Christiane Gerstetter and Jenny Kirschey contributed, evaluates the coherence between the EU’s development policies and its other policies. Its authors describe the positive and negative impacts of these policies on development priorities and provide recommendations to achieve better policy coherence. The study was commissioned by the European Parliament and is available for download.

The study An Assessment of the Balancing of the EU Development Objectives with other Policies and Priorities [pdf, 1.2 MB, English] was conducted by Institute for European Studies, Ecologic Institute and Südwind Institut. The study provides a critical assessment of the coherence between the EU's development policies and its other policies fields. Detailed conclusions are outlined for trade, agriculture, climate change and migration policies.

The study was commissioned by the European Parliament as part of the framework contract on development policy. It is to inform the Parliament’s report on policy coherence for development. The Ecologic Institute has contributed chapters on agriculture and climate politics. The study is available for download.