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This note focuses on selected instruments relevant to international development. It reviews the proposals on three of the geographic instruments (the European Development Fund, the Development Cooperation Instrument, and the European Neighbourhood Instrument) and two of the thematic instruments (the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, and the Instrument for Stability). The author argues that it will be difficult to secure financing for external action in general, and for development cooperation in particular, as member states appear intent on reducing the overall EU budget.