African states and the European Union (EU) are expected to discuss the next Africa-EU strategy in the coming months. The African Union (AU), through the appointment of the AU High Representative on the future of AU-EU Relations, started preparing for the negotiations in 2018. The AU, regional economic communities and
ADEPT and MERIDIA Partners are jointly organising a webinar series under the theme «Beyond Aid: Rerouting Africa-Europe relations ». The first webinar will be on “Africa’s debt: to write off or not to write off?” Register here: https://buff.ly/3lg9fuG Calls for Africa’s debt relief have intensified amid the economic fallout from
Climate change and the green agenda are top priorities for both the African and the European continent. This has been clearly spelled out in the EU Comprehensive Strategy with Africa (March 2020) and in the African Union’s Climate Change Strategy (to be published soon). It can be assumed
‘What if some African governments are doing a better job than our own of managing the coronavirus?’ (New Yorker, May 2020) COVID-19 has gripped the world, shaken the multilateral system and caused widespread uncertainty. One thing is clear though: there is no going back so we must adapt to
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s (FES) Africa Department and EU Office cordially invite you to the fifth and final webinar in our series “What’s the offer? A new partnership between Europe and Africa”. In 2020, the nature of the cooperation between the European Union and Africa is negotiated and might profoundly change: a new EU-Sahel
The response of the AU and the impact to the African European relations Date: Tuesday, 19th May 2020, 17.00 – 18:30 CEST Venue: Zoom meeting, Registration: schmidjell@vidc.org With inputs by Angela Odai, African Union, The Citizens and Diaspora Directorate Geert Laporte, Director – European Think Tanks Group and Co-Director ECDPM – European Centre for Development Policy Management N.N, ADEPT – Africa Development Platform