A Comprehensive EU Strategy for Africa - Trade and Investments
The new European Commission (EC) is putting EU-African relations to the fore. A Joint Communication of the EC towards a comprehensive Strategy with Africa stresses the African Continent’s strategic importance and the EU’s need to strengthen its partnership with (and not for) Africa. Proposals in the Joint Communication maintain promotion of sustainable investments with Africa on top of the EU’s agenda. Partnership with Africa to attract investors and boost regional as well as continental integration are specific actions aimed to attain sustainable growth and jobs in African countries. This emphasis is not new, being in line with a geopolitically oriented Commission and the European Union’s (EU) trend of shifting from a Donor-recipient model to a relationship based on mutual cooperation, pursuing common interests and mutual benefits. As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold in Africa during 2020, it is becoming more urgent that EU and African relations post COVID-19 be tailored to a new scenario and show tangible action using partnership rhetoric.
Briefing
External author
Ainhoa MARIN-EGOSCOZABAL
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Policy area
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- Africa
- Africa
- African Union
- Asia and Oceania
- China
- common foreign and security policy
- direct investment
- economic geography
- economic policy
- ECONOMICS
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental policy
- EU strategy
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- extra-European organisations
- FINANCE
- financing and investment
- free-trade area
- GEOGRAPHY
- geopolitics
- green economy
- humanities
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- international trade
- investment abroad
- SCIENCE
- sustainable development
- tariff policy
- TRADE
- trade relations