LISBON SPEED TALKS Africa and Europe: between aid and strategy 14th October 2020 | 18h00-18:30 (CEST) In the next Lisbon Speed Talk, which will be held next October 14, Geert Laporte talks with the radio-journalist Ricardo Alexandre. Geert Laporte is the Director of the European Think Tanks Group (ETTG), a network of leading
Webinar event on September 28 until October 1 @ 12: 00-13: 30 h (Madrid, GMT + 2) Reducing inequalities: progress and challenges for European cooperation in Senegal Organized by the Royal Elcano Institute with the collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation; and
(in partnership with ADYFE) This is the third in a series of virtual events taking place between September & October 2020 and leading up to the next AU-EU Summit. This is a Zoom Event. Please REGISTER HERE Africa has the youngest population in the world. While central to the continent’s development,
The current policy brief lays out the obstacles to both AfCFTA implementation and realisation of its full economic potential. It also explores how the EU can engage in providing targeted support and how to strengthen AfCFTA-related cooperation between Africa and the EU. The analysis and recommendations draw on a review of the literature and policy documents by the German Development Institute (DIE), the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) and the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), as well as two online expert seminars on 17 and 24 June 2020.
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
This year was supposed to be crucial for Africa-Europe relations, culminating in the sixth AU-EU Summit, scheduled for 28 and 29 October in Brussels. But then COVID-19 happened. After a long palaver, a decision was finally taken: the summit will be postponed to 2021, although a date still needs to be fixed. Geert Laporte explains why postponing may not be such a bad thing.
