EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Africa

MEPs advocate a genuine partnership between Europe and Africa as a beneficial counterweight to Chinese competition

Brussels, 15/02/2022 (Agence Europe)

The opportunity and need to forge a new, mutually beneficial partnership between the EU and Africa, with concrete projects, was widely shared at a new debate on Tuesday 15 February on EU-Africa relations, ahead of the EU-AU summit on 17-18 February.

This summit is “a unique opportunity to put Europe back at the centre of attention of African partners, in an unprecedented context of the Covid-19 challenge and an increasingly competitive geopolitical landscape”, stressed the High...