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The European Green Deal is an ambitious strategy for economic transformation of the European Union (EU) that most likely will affect other policies. The aim of this article is to consider how Official Development Assistance (ODA) offered by the EU and its members may change as a result of the European Green Deal's implementation. This is done by assessing the existing trends in EU ODA spending focused on addressing climate/environmental issues. This analysis uses for calculations data provided by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. One of the main findings is that climate/environmental issues play a significant and growing role in the allocation of EU ODA funds, though aid provided by some EU members, including Poland, do not share this pattern. It is expected that the implementation of the European Green Deal will lead to furthering the diversified (multi-sector) nature of EU influence over economic transformation of partner countries.

Tekst przybliża regulacje unijne dotyczące współpracy rozwojowej i wskazuje mechanizm wpływu, jaki wywierają one na wypełnianie roli donatora przez wstępujące do Unii Europejskiej (UE) państwa. Analiza nie ogranicza się tylko do norm prawnych, płynących choćby z traktatów, ale rozpatruje również dokumenty tworzące zobowiązania o charakterze politycznym, które notabene dominują w sferze unijnej kooperacji rozwojowej. Najbardziej aktualnym zbiorem zasad drugiego typu jest Nowy Europejski Konsensus w sprawie Rozwoju z 2017 r. W tekście weryfikowana jest hipoteza głosząca, że regulacje unijne są czynnikiem bezpośrednio wymuszającym podjęcie roli donatora pomocy rozwojowej przez kraj wstępujący do UE, a następnie determinującym kształt i wielkość jego współpracy rozwojowej.

This text describes the influence of the European Union's regulations on the member states' development cooperation. The article identifies and comments on relevant norms from the two key legal agreements on which the EU is based: the Treaty on European Union, and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. It also highlights the content and show's possible implication of subsidiary EU acts, that are included in the acquis, and need to be accepted by every country willing to join the EU. Currently, the leading and most comprehensive document regulating EU's development cooperation is the new European consensus on development from 2017, which, formally, is just a non-binding joint statement of the EU institutions and governments. The goal of the text is to show the impact of the EU's norms, including those non-legally binding, with regard to the creation, and further evolution, of development assistance donors. ; Tekst przybliża regulacje unijne dotyczące współpracy rozwojowej i wskazuje mechanizm wpływu, jaki wywierają one na wypełnianie roli donatora przez wstępujące do Unii Europejskiej (UE) państwa. Analiza nie ogranicza się tylko do norm prawnych, płynących choćby z traktatów, ale rozpatruje również dokumenty tworzące zobowiązania o charakterze politycznym, które notabene dominują w sferze unijnej kooperacji rozwojowej. Najbardziej aktualnym zbiorem zasad drugiego typu jest Nowy Europejski Konsensus w sprawie Rozwoju z 2017 r. W tekście weryfikowana jest hipoteza głosząca, że regulacje unijne są czynnikiem bezpośrednio wymuszającym podjęcie roli donatora pomocy rozwojowej przez kraj wstępujący do UE, a następnie determinującym kształt i wielkość jego współpracy rozwojowej.

In January 2016, the People's Republic of China became the 65th member country of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: a multinational financial institution created by the European Union and the European Investment Bank "to promote entrepreneurship and change lives" across the Mediterranean region, Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Perhaps Chinese involvement in this European institution could be considered a surprising development, until we realize both the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which are generally seen as the major players, are constituted of over a dozen EU members. This complexity of relations is also evident throughout the rest of the multilateral development banks active in Asia. The aim of the article is to test the hypothesis that the cooperation between multilateral development banks not only provides the opportunity for the funding of various investment projects crucial to the world economy, but can also facilitate the achievement of the individual political goals of their members. The text offers a brief comparative analysis of the multilateral development banks that operate and interact in Asia, presenting the common ground for their financial cooperation, while attempting to identify ways of avoiding serious conflicts of interest. The real test of this hypothesis must take into account the political context in which these interactions take place. ; Publication is a part of the project: Regional Center for International Debate in Lodz 2017–2018 Project co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Tekst przybliża regulacje unijne dotyczące współpracy rozwojowej i wskazuje mechanizm wpływu, jaki wywierają one na wypełnianie roli donatora przez wstępujące do Unii Europejskiej (UE) państwa. Analiza nie ogranicza się tylko do norm prawnych, płynących choćby z traktatów, ale rozpatruje również dokumenty tworzące zobowiązania o charakterze politycznym, które nota bene dominują w sferze unijnej kooperacji rozwojowej. Najbardziej aktualnym zbiorem zasad drugiego typu jest Nowy Europejski Konsensus w sprawie Rozwoju z 2017 r. W tekście weryfikowana jest hipoteza głosząca, że regulacje unijne są czynnikiem bezpośrednio wymuszającym podjęcie roli donatora pomocy rozwojowej przez kraj wstępujący do UE, a następnie determinującym kształt i wielkość jego współpracy rozwojowej. ; This text describes the influence of the European Union's regulations on the member states' development cooperation. The article identifies and comments on relevant norms from the two key legal agreements on which the EU is based: the Treaty on European Union, and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. It also highlights the content and show's possible implication of subsidiary EU acts, that are included in the acquis, and need to be accepted by every country willing to join the EU. Currently, the leading and most comprehensive document regulating EU's development cooperation is the new European consensus on development from 2017, which, formally, is just a non-binding joint statement of the EU institutions and governments. The goal of the text is to show the impact of the EU's norms, including those non-legally binding, with regard to the creation, and further evolution, of development assistance donors.

This article focuses on the political effects of ongoing shifts in the world economy. Using various indicators, including shares in the global Gross Domestic Product, expenditures on research and development, external balance on goods and services, and military expenditures, the authors present how the positions of major powers in international relations (the United States, the European Union and its countries, Japan, China, and Russia) have changed over the last few decades. Current data and the extrapolation of trends reveal that we are witnessing significant changes in economic power across the world. This has undoubtedly exacerbated existing tensions in international politics. The text tests the hypothesis that a weakening of the major economies of the global North (the US, EU, and Japan), and related shift in the balance of power, are driving the world towards the existence of a multi-polar international system.

South Asia, East Asia and South-East Asia have a significant number of recipients of Official Development Assistance (ODA), including the Least Developed Countries. The importance of this part of the world in terms of global trade and geopolitics is self-evident and contributes to the reasons why major members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), including Japan and South Korea, have a clear interest in being actively engaged in development cooperation within the region. There are, however, at least five emerging donor states, also active in the region, who operate outside the framework of the DAC. The aim of the text is to provide a brief comparative analysis of the development activities of: India, the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China, Singapore and Thailand.