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African Union and European Union flags the AU-EU Summit in Belgium. Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

March 3, 2022

AU-EU Summit: five ways to turn the rhetoric of an ‘equal partnership’ into practice

Inge Kaul, Hertie School

African participants have decided to press the reset button and begun to act as equal partners – but more can be done to improve the summit process.

Representatives at the AU-EU Summit in Brussels.

February 22, 2022

How the migration and mobility pact has helped to reset AU-EU relations

Mahama Tawat, Université de Montpellier

Bolder action is needed if the African Union and the European Union are to find common ground on migration.

African Union leaders and their European Union counterparts held their 6th Summit meeting in Brussels. DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP via Getty Images

February 21, 2022

AU-EU Summit: private sector partnerships are where real change can happen

Raffaele Marchetti, LUISS Universita Guido Carli

The cooperation should strengthen institutions and rally private entities to fund public projects.

Shiny backgrounds for photo opportunities figure prominently at the 2022 AU-EU summit in Brussels. Photo by European Union

February 16, 2022

AU-EU summit: what stands in the way of a deeper relationship

Frank Mattheis, United Nations University

The 2022 summit between the European Union and the African Union seeks to renew the intercontinental partnership with massive investments. However, structural patterns of inequality persist.

Freshly caught fish are pictured in a pirogue in Dakar, Senegal. Photo by JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images

February 15, 2022

African countries must protect their fish stocks from the European Union - here’s how

Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, University of St Andrews

Fisheries agreements favour the European Union and don’t do enough to protect African interests.

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