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Vol 62 No 11 |

Parting on patents

27th May 2021

United States President Joe Biden's backing for an unlikely patent-waiver for Covid-19 vaccines is deft political manoeuvring. It announced the USA's return as lead player internat...

Vol 62 No 11 |

Cash for 'clearing houses'

27th May 2021

Denmark is in talks that could see Rwanda process asylum-seekers currently in the EU country or arriving there in return for development aid. Once the property of the hard right, a...

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Vol 62 No 10 |

Hopes for new initiatives on debt and finance at Africa summit hosted by Paris

18th May 2021

First in-person conference on the pandemic's economic effects on the continent draws wide turnout

By bringing together 20 African presidents with IMF, World Bank and EU chiefs in Paris on 17-18 May, France's President Emmanuel Macron's declared aim was to launch a 'new deal' fo...

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Vol 62 No 9 |

ETHIOPIA
EUROPEAN UNION

Aid with election strings attached

23rd April 2021

The EU is tag teaming with the US to keep up pressure on Addis Ababa for reconciliation measures ahead of the June election

The European Union will send an election observation mission for June's general elections in Ethiopia, and has restarted sending humanitarian aid to the country, but there are stri...

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Vol 62 No 9 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICA
ACP

Long-awaited new trade treaty lacks substance for Africa

19th April 2021

Mandarins in Brussels call it a turning point but the deal makes few commitments on trade terms, climate and migration cash

The European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific Community on Thursday (15 April) signed off on the successor to the Cotonou agreement, ending two-and-a-half years of negotiat...

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Vol 62 No 4 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICA

Green tax blow to Africa

18th February 2021

The EU's €1 trillion Green Deal project sits at the heart of Ursula von der Leyen's European Commission Presidency, but the bloc wants to export its climate change policy, and...

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Vol 62 No 4 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICA

Lisbon looks south

19th February 2021

As President of the European Council this year, Portugal is prioritising commercial and security ties with Africa

João Gomes Cravinho, Portugal's defence minister, wants to strengthen political dialogue between the European Union and African decision-makers. Most European countries have milit...

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Vol 61 No 25 |

Old treaty rolls over

17th December 2020

After two years of negotiations the white smoke of a successor to the Cotonou Agreement – which governs trade and political relations between the European Union and the African, Ca...

Vol 61 No 24 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICA

An uncivil union

3rd December 2020

The EU and the AU are pressing ahead with plans for a 'strategic partnership' but the rhetoric masks serious disagreements

Closer agreement on development assistance and its goals between the European Union and Africa was one of the first foreign policy initiatives to come out of President Ursula von d...

Vol 61 No 19 |

EUROPEAN UNION
AFRICAN UNION

Summit catches a cold

24th September 2020

A European Union/African Union summit planned for October is the latest casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although European Commission officials conceded privately during the summ...

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