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Record Nr.

UNINA9910598144203321

Titolo

Europe and Africa : the long search for common ground / / edited by Giovanni Carbone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milan : , : Ledizioni, , [2021]

©2021

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 pages)

Disciplina

337.6

Soggetti

Africa Foreign economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. The Going Gets Tough: Will Europe  and Africa Get Going Together? -- 2. A New Strategy with Africa?  The EU Plan Before and After Covid-19 -- 3. Renewing the Cotonou Partnership Agreement:  Déjà Vu or New Deal? -- 4. Migration: EU vs Africa  Perspectives and Approaches -- 5. Security: EU Concerns and African Initiatives in Inter-Regional Cooperation -- 6. Europe's Pivot to Africa: National Strategies  and the Challenge of Coherence -- Conclusions and Policy Implications -- About the Authors.

Sommario/riassunto

A year and a half after the new Strategy with Africa proposed by the European Commission was made public, the new partnership between the two continents is still being defined. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic with Africa's first economic recession in 25 years and a sharp rise in poverty and debt has created new challenges for the two continents' agenda, highlighting new gaps to address on the way forward.With the European Union-African Union summit scheduled for February 2022, the definition of the new partnership is once again gathering momentum, while both sides are still trying to define common positions. Will these two "natural partners" be able to tackle the most urgent challenges and turn them into opportunities for collaboration and engagement? What are the priority issues, and which ones are potentially most divisive?