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Vol 65 No 16 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICAN UNION

Imagination deficit limits continental ties

25th July 2024

The European Commission is focusing on migration but ignoring the scope for ambitious economic partnerships

Top of the priority list on Africa policy for German Christian Democrat Ursula von der Leyen, who won a second term as President of the European Commission on 18 July will be migra...

Vol 65 No 14 |

EGYPT
EUROPEAN UNION

Ignoring abuses, Brussels courts El Sisi with energy funds

3rd July 2024

After an EU summit offers billions for power projects, Cairo will have raised $90bn over the past year

Europe’s energy conglomerates queued up to sign a series of multi-billion euro deals with the Egyptian government on 29 and 30 June as President Abdel Fattah el Sisi continue...

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Vol 65 No 12 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICA

A disputed levy

4th June 2024

Report finds EU's new carbon import levy will hit many third countries less than feared but another think-tank says Africa faces possible 4% drop in exports to Europe

The economic effects of the EU's new carbon import levy are set to be far smaller than feared by many third countries, many of them African, according to a report published on Mond...

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Vol 65 No 10 |

Mystery surrounds Brussels migration deal with Abuja

1st May 2024

Abuja is silent after a top official at the EU says it has agreed to a migrant return scheme – without cash incentives

Top officials at the European Commission say they have concluded talks on a migrant readmission and return agreement with Nigeria that could mark a breakthrough in Brussels-Abuja r...

Vol 65 No 9 |

Brussels refuses to delay deforestation law, hitting Africa's cocoa and coffee farmers

17th April 2024

New EU rules banning produce sourced from deforested areas start in January and risk wrecking Ethiopia's coffee trade

Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to postpone the start-up of its tough rules blocking products sourced from deforested areas, including cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm ...

Vol 65 No 7 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICA

Fearing a regional meltdown, Brussels pays Egypt $7.4 billion

21st March 2024

Cairo's negotiators have astutely played the geopolitical card as EU governments respond to migration panic

The prospect of deepening economic chaos in Egypt and regional shockwaves from Israel's war in Gaza galvanised European Union officials to finalise a €7.4 billion (US$8bn) aid...

Vol 65 No 6 |

How Brussels was caught out by the Kivu war

5th March 2024

The proxy war between Kinshasa and Kigali is derailing the European Union's plan to secure critical minerals

Three days after an angry meeting between Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on 16 February in Addis Ababa over the escalati...

Vol 65 No 6 |

Kigali pushes back against the African Union

5th March 2024

President Kagame's strategic position is facing growing regional pressure

Rwanda has warned the Africa Union that it would see any support for the South African-led regional intervention force against the M-23 militia in eastern Congo-Kinshasa as a threa...

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Vol 65 No 6 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICA

Missing the trees for the wood

7th March 2024

Smallholder farmers could lose millions as Brussels enforces new rules to stop destruction of forests

The EU's deforestation law is facing growing pushback from African states and the wider international community over fears that the compliance burdens imposed by the new law will b...

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Vol 65 No 5 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICA

Carbon row heads to the World Trade Organization

28th February 2024

South Africa and India have accused the EU of using environmental issues as a cover for protectionism in its new CBAM

African countries are set to raise formal complaints about the effects of some of the European Union's new laws on environmental protection and carbon at this week's Ministerial Co...

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