Vol 51 No 23 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Approaching the summit 19th November 2010 The first big question for the European Union-Africa summit in Tripoli on 29-30 November is who will be there. By convention, the Libyan hosts choose their guests. The...
Vol 51 No 22 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Trade talk troubles 5th November 2010 The EU’s obstinacy over trade concessions to Africa is encouraging frustrated governments to turn increasingly to Asia The partners are not equal in the negotiations for Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) on ‘free trade’ between the European Union and the 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)...
Vol 51 No 22 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Pushing Europe towards African farms 5th November 2010 Strong criticism has been levelled at European Union and Western companies for failing to match the pace of Asian investment in African agriculture. A new report published in...
Vol 51 No 22 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Complex architecture but no deal 5th November 2010 Africa is larger, politically more varied and much poorer than the island states that constitute its colleagues in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) group. Like them, its relationship with the...
Vol 51 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICAEUROPEAN UNION Buttering up Zuma 8th October 2010 In trying to sort out its relations with Africa, Brussels takes care to befriend its main trading partner on the continent South Africa is the European Union's leading trade partner in Africa and the 27 EU countries form its most important trading bloc. Both parties are well aware of...
Vol 51 No 3 | SOMALIAUGANDAEUROPEAN UNION Training the trainers 5th February 2010 Uganda and the European Union are combining to train security forces for Somalia’s shaky Transitional Federal Government.
Vol 50 No 24 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA The East takes on the South 4th December 2009 The new team of Eurocrats has little experience of Africa and may be surprised by what it finds A new European Commission was named on 17 November and most of its members who will deal with African affairs are from countries with no ties to the...
Vol 50 No 24 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Mr Chambas goes to Brussels 4th December 2009 After Mohammed ibn Chambas takes over as Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group in Brussels on 1 March 2010, he will have to fight hard...
Vol 50 No 12 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Banana skin 12th June 2009 A row is growing between the African-Caribbean-Pacific countries and the European Union. On 29 May, ACP trade ministers accused the EU of sacrificing development to commerce. They asked...
Vol 50 No 3 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Ghana's chance 6th February 2009 Ghana's Ambassador in Brussels, Nana Berna Kumi, is leading in an increasingly hard fought battle there for the post of Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and...