Partnership Instrument

The EU's Partnership Instrument (PI) is a foreign policy tool established under the current Multiannual Financial Framework to fund strategic cooperation with third countries on 'issues of global concern', and pursue EU objectives set out in the Europe 2020 strategy related to sustainability, trade and innovation, and EU public diplomacy.

While all third countries are eligible for PI-funded cooperation, the instrument is especially aimed at middle and upper-income countries that are current or potential strategic partners to the EU.

Author: Matthew Parry, with Philipp Wegner

• Primary Source

EP: EPRS: Briefing: How the EU Budget is Spent http://www.europeansources.info/record/how-the-eu-budget-is-spent/

ESO: Background information: Does the EU Have the Right Instruments to Finance Assistance in Protracted Crises and the Needs of Upper Middle Income Countries? [EPRS: Study, December 2016] http://www.europeansources.info/record/does-the-eu-have-the-right-instruments-to-finance-assistance-in-protracted-crises-and-the-needs-of-upper-middle-income-countries/

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