LISBONĀ SPEEDĀ TALKSĀ 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 theĀ European Think Tanks GroupĀ (ETTG), a network of leading
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.
Financial access in Africa has been on the rise in the last decade. It has a critical role to play in increasing the resilience of households and supporting their livelihoods. Maintaining this role is vital to tackle welfare and income losses stemming from the Covid-19-sparked economic crisis.
The global Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on trade across the world. Value chains and tradeĀ have slowed down, or even been brought to a halt, via several channels. This paper investigates the impacts of the pandemic on trade and value chains in Africa, with a special focus on Ethiopia and Kenya. It also makes specific policy recommendations regarding theĀ African Continental Free Trade AreaĀ Agreement in the light of Covid-19.
An ODI video from their new series named Bites which is a continuation of our previous ETTG-ODI discussion on āAfrica beyond Covid-19ā.
The ETTG note debunks some of the dominant myths surrounding Chinese engagement in Africa and unpacks the evolving relationship between China and the African continent. It starts by looking closer at common European perceptions about China-Africa relations. It then provides a brief sketch of the historical underpinnings of Chinaās engagement in Africa. Afterwards, it looks at how the notion of competition with rising global powers like China has influenced the EUās relations with African partners.
