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The cooperation should strengthen institutions and rally private entities to fund public projects.
Some African and European leaders at the last AU-EU summit in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, November 2017.
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The persistent power inequalities between Africa and Europe do not bode well for supposed change. This is why the latest summit is important.
Burundi President Évariste Ndayishimiye at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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The return of financial inflows from foreign investment or aid support will go a long way towards jump-starting economic recovery.
Freshly caught fish are pictured in a pirogue in Dakar, Senegal.
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Fisheries agreements favour the European Union and don’t do enough to protect African interests.
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The threat of sanctions may have little effect.
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The new EU rules on sustainable finance defeat their own objective.
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The proposal is likely to mean economic and diplomatic costs for Australia, and should ring alarm bells in Canberra.
Russian soldiers take part in military drills in the Rostov region of Russia, near Ukraine’s border, on Dec. 10, 2021.
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Russia appears inching closer to invading Ukraine, despite warnings from the US and other Western powers. Here are a few key ideas to help better understand what led to this looming crisis.
Too many industries have been exempted from carbon rules.
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Emissions trading systems are supposed to speed up decarbonisation, but they are not yet capable of doing so in practice.
Colonel Assimi Goita has stepped back from undertakings that there would be a return to civilian rule soon.
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Rising tensions in West Africa heighten as the military junta in Mali engages Wagner, a Russian private military company while defying ECOWAS.
Vladimir Putin at a concert in March 2021 marking the seventh anniversary of its annexation of Crimea.
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As Ukraine wrestles with the latest threat from its larger neighbor, two scholars explain how the independent country is often viewed as part of a greater Russia – and why that inflames tensions.
A local Muslim community buries a Yemeni migrant in Bohoniki, Poland, in November 2021. He was one of several people from the Middle East and elsewhere who have died in an area of forests and bogs along the Poland-Belarus border amid a standoff involving migrants between the two countries.
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What’s happening in the eastern forests of the European Union is a catastrophic spectacle and the logical and expected consequence of more than three decades of irresponsible border policy.
No Olaf-ing matter.
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Olaf Scholz faces the unfavourable task of uniting a coalition of three parties with very different agendas.
In this September 2021 photo, Warsaw residents place candles before the national Border Guards Headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, as a sign of mourning for four migrants found dead a few days earlier along the border between Poland and Belarus.
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The European Union is attempting to portray eastern European countries as racists infringing upon the human rights of refugees. But it’s the EU itself that’s primarily to blame for the refugee crisis.
E as in ebbing.
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To understand the euro’s weakness, you have to look at the US as well as Europe.
Hopes for a better future?
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Belarus has created a migrant crisis at its border in an apparent move to punish the European Union for its opposition to the country’s leader.
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A group of powerful countries have agreed ‘green corridors’ for emissions-free shipping by 2025, but that’s not even half the battle.
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European leaders have accused Belarus of using civilians as weapons along the EU border in a ‘hybrid war’. And Russia, they say, is the mastermind behind it.
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The crisis at the Belarus/Poland border follows 18 months of political turmoil for the country’s authoritarian president.
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It’s vital not to lose sight of who the people trapped on the Belarus/Poland border are and how they came to be there.