International Public Relat Op PhD candidate at the Nationa Abstract: In the context of the gr Union and the appearance of a comm it is necessary to understand if we c intergovernmental level and conside still far from reaching the maximu method of the cooperation for devel the national policies that will enabl countries but also by the EU to r activities, so necessary for raising th of achieving the Millennium Develo Keywords: developing countries development aid 1. Introduction Development aid has become in the forward by the increasingly construc ten years ago it would have been dif countries because of the different p the EU states and institutions to try t This new reality is in fact determine Europe even if the economical and s him more self-centered. In fact if we of supports independent of the eco Slovakians and 82% of the French issue. Furthermore we see building all cooperation that are building nation 1 Beneficiary of the project “Doctoral sch European Higher Education Area”, co-fu Operational Programme Human Resources D Globalization and Cul tions in the EU: Development Cooperat pinion and Public Policies Victor Negrescu al School of Political Science and Administration (S victor.negrescu@gmail.com owing importance of the cooperation for development in the mon growing public opinion agreement supporting this kind of can talk today about a true common European consensus. Still c ered to be a part of the national foreign policies, EU developm um of its efficiency. In this paper we try to introduce a new lopment policies and interpretation of the degree of communita le us to appreciate the stages that have to be completed by th realize a completely uniform European assistance strategy a he efficiency of the funds allocated by the EU, but also in the p opment Goals. s; Europeanization; public opinion; international public e last few years a key issue in the EU foreign policy cted awareness of the Europeans on their role in the fficult to think about a common European policy on perspectives and interests, it becomes more and more to build a common cooperation for development pol ed by the increasing support that development aid b social struggles of the common European citizen sho e look at the European opinion pools we see almost t onomical development of the EU states: for examp and Romanians believe that development aid is a over Europe more and more NGOs supporting nal and European wide networks to try to promote holarships supporting research: Competitiveness, quality, and c unded by the European Union through the European Socia Development 2007-2013 ltural Diversity 737 tion Public SNSPA) 1 , e European initiatives, covered on ment aid is evaluation arisation of he member and of the perspective relations; y being pushed e world. Even if the developing e necessary for licy. benefits all over ould have made the same levels ple 89% of the very important g development even more the cooperation in the al Fund, Sectorial