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Item Open Access EU-Pacific Development Relations and the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent(DIPLO, 2022) Doidge, MathewIn July 2022, the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) launched its 2050 Strategy for a Blue Pacific Continent setting out regional priorities and inviting development partners to engage with a Pacific vision for their future. In this context, Dr Mathew Doidge reflects on the development relationship of the European Union with the Pacific Island states, and the possibility for reframing that the Blue Pacific Strategy offers. The Pacific Island states have a long history of engagement with the European Union (EU), mostly focused on the issue of development assistance. European engagement with Pacific development began as early as the 1950s: the original Articles of Association of the founding Treaty of Rome, an important precursor to a formal EU development policy, incorporated the French Pacific territories including what is now Vanuatu. But the big bang, as far as EU– Pacific relations is concerned, was the accession of the United Kingdom in 1973. The reimagining of development policy that this entailed resulted in the establishment of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) grouping of states through the 1975 Lomé Convention, to which the Pacific states were progressively added over subsequent years. It is that EU– ACP structure that has largely inhered ever since.Item Open Access European Parliament Election 2024: A Shift Right?(DIPLO, 2023) Doidge, MathewItem Open Access Understanding Ukraine’s symbolic fight to return to Europe, as the EU marks 18 years since its ‘big bang’ enlargement(The Conversation, 2022) Kelly S; Doidge, MathewItem Open Access The French Presidential Election and the Future of the European Union(DIPLO, 2022) Doidge, MathewItem Open Access The Ukraine Crisis: Where is the European Union?(DIPLO, 2022) Doidge, MathewItem Open Access Trouble in the Family: Hungary, Poland and the European Union Explained(DIPLO, 2022) Doidge, MathewItem Open Access German Election 2021: The Stuttering Race to Replace Merkel(DIPLO, 2021) Doidge, MathewItem Open Access The Return to Europe: The Eighteenth Anniversary of the European Union’s First Eastern Enlargement(DIPLO, 2022) Doidge, Mathew