The day after their debate (see EUROPE 13736/15), MEPs adopted a resolution on Thursday 23 October, with 367 votes in favour, 98 against and 113 abstentions, on common priorities between Europe and Africa, ahead of the EU-Africa summit scheduled to take place in Angola at the end of November (see EUROPE 13673/6).
The European Parliament considers it “more essential than ever” to strengthen cooperation between the European Union and Africa, against a backdrop of “shifting geopolitical dynamics and growing global insecurity, including rising extremism and cuts in development and humanitarian spending”.
Ratification of the Samoa Agreement still unfinished. The European Parliament is also calling on 22 EU Member States and 66 African partners to ratify the Samoa Agreement without delay, to move it from provisional application to full entry into force.
The agreement was signed in Apia in November 2023, under the aegis of the former European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen (see EUROPE B1329319). A few months later, the Commissioner told Agence Europe that ratification of the text was “progressing well” (see EUROPE 13445/1).
See the European Parliament resolution: https://aeur.eu/f/j3q (Original version in French by Bernard Denuit)