National Strategies and International issues at the Inception of Community Development Aid: France, sub-Saharan Africa and the Yaoundé Conventions

Introduction This chapter aims to analyse France’s role in relation to the development cooperation of the European Economic Community (EEC) during the 1960s. At that time, the EEC’s development aid policy was centred on French-speaking Africa, a region at the heart of French political and economic interests. We therefore need to understand the terms of the relationship between Paris and the European Community in Africa. The first part of this paper will concentrate on the origins of the EEC’s..