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EU sets out plan to support Africa for the next pandemic
The EU has made a coordinated push to help support African states to prepare their health systems for the next pandemic, but without appearing to give any ground on the main short–term demand of African leaders to allow them to produce COVID vaccines.
How can European and African leaders address the continent’s road safety crisis?
Those living in Africa are more than five times as likely to be involved in a fatal car accident as those living in Europe. European and African leaders must commit to advancing safe mobility across the continent, writes Jean Todt, the UN secretary-general’s special envoy for road safety.
EU-AU summit: Seeking a partnership with a purpose
Two years after the EU set out its blueprint for a ‘strategic partnership’ with Africa, the EU-African Union summit designed to seal the deal takes place in Brussels next Thursday (17 February). A series of glossy initiatives and promises will be unveiled but much still hangs in the air.
Africa is speaking with one voice, is the EU listening?
Europe thinks it is doing enough to secure a new ‘strategic partnership’ with Africa but its current approach to the pandemic could derail talks next week, write Emily Wigens, Friederike Röder and Eloise Todd.
Talks collapse on classifying vaccine donations as development aid
Talks between wealthy nations on how to report donated COVID vaccines have collapsed after they failed to agree on a common rules regime.
Borrell – EU will be ‘trading partner not donor’ in new deal with Kenya
The EU will no longer be a ‘donor but a trading partner’ with Kenya, said the bloc’s top diplomat as he set out plans for a ‘strategic dialogue’ between Brussels and the East African state.
EU needs to make African offer on legal migration, says Greek PM
The EU needs to look at offering African states a new regime of organised legal migration routes, alongside cooperation between both sides on security and border control management, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday (27 January).
EU and African leaders seek to rebuild fragile trust ahead of summit
Migration, climate change mitigation and the fallout from the Covid pandemic are set to be the main bones of contention at the upcoming EU–African Union summit in Brussels, insiders to the talks have told EURACTIV.
2022: COVID and vaccine access cast a shadow over EU-Africa partnership plan
Nearly two years after the European Commission set out plans for a ‘strategic partnership’ with Africa, and repeated delays, the long-awaited EU–African Union summit is almost upon us.
Ghana’s role is at the heart of the Africa and Europe partnership
Ghana must play a key role in building the new partnership between Africa and Europe, writes Sena Siaw-Boateng.
EU hopes to head off criticism after BioNTech announces first African COVID vaccine site
The EU is hoping to head off criticism of its distribution of COVID vaccines from African states, after German pharma giant BioNTech announced on Tuesday (26 October) that it would establish its first African site producing COVID vaccines early next year, with EU support.
The winding road to renewed Europe-Africa partnership in post-COVID world
Once the dust of the COVID-19 crisis settles, it will be time to build a new foundation for Europe-Africa relations. As the EU searches for allies in a post-COVID world, a group of seven European think tank leaders looks at how to build a stronger Europe-Africa axis in the multilateral system.
Von der Leyen offers African energy investment and more vaccine promises
Investment in green energy and new promises on vaccine supply were the only offers to Africa made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen this week, as the EU’s plans to boost relations with its southern neighbour continent continue to sit on the back burner.
Africa must answer its own ‘Kissinger question’, say EU diplomats
Africa’s version of the 'Kissinger question', which originally referred to who should be the United States’ first contact in Europe, is one of the issues that remain open as the EU and African leaders seek to develop a so called ‘strategic partnership’.
The EU carbon tax could create a new era of trade wars
Europe's carbon border levy to increase the cost of carbon-intensive goods entering the EU could push the Global South towards less restrictive trade deals, ultimately causing more harm to the environment, writes Muhammed Magassy.
EU–Africa relations: a partnership delayed but not derailed
Talk of an EU–Africa partnership may have only emerged in the last two years, but the promise of better trade and political relations with its southern ‘sister continent’ came from Jean Claude Juncker, who set out plans for a continent–to–continent...
Why the EU should pay attention to Africa’s tech sector
As the EU defines its priorities for an EU-Africa partnership, Africa's burgeoning tech sector is an obvious starting point for collaboration, argues Dan Dalton.
EU and Africa must ‘co–operate as equals’, MEPs say
Europe should move away from a donor-recipient relationship with Africa and cooperate as equals instead, EU lawmakers have said in a new report adopted on Thursday (28 January).
African trade pact offers chance to kickstart UK trade ties
The new African Continental Free Trade Area is a chance to kickstart trade between the UK and Africa, delegates told a UK-Africa investment summit this week.