There are indications that the EU is already proposing that the member states of the ACP should decide - in the next few months (by April 2000) - the political bases or geographical groupings within which they will enter into negotiations with the EU scheduled to begin in September 2002.

Science and technology play an increasing role in the geopolitical arena. The EU is West Africas largest trading partner and supports the region in many areas with the goal of improving peoples living conditions and ensuring sustainable development. We are convinced about the urgent necessity for such strategic regional cooperation to enable all our countries to deal more effectively with an extremely difficult global environment. (140 KB, PDF-File), Robert Kappel. Together towards justainability In addition, Europe offers Africa support in the development of an inclusive democratic societal system, without which there would not be any sustainable, prosperous, peaceful development among African countries. (2 MB, PDF-File), Dr. Dianguina Tounkara. The EU stands committed to a renewed multilateralism fit for the 21st century. We are ready to play our part in developing strategies and defining viable relationships that serve the interests of our countries and regions and that derive from our own development strategies and vision. Given all this, the strategy of the FES is to consolidate and stabilise the political dialogue on current and future challenges relating to European-African relations. : Europa - Afrika . Since 2000, the EU has deployed over 160 EOMs in more than 60 countries. In theory, the AU pursues a people-centred approach. In contrast to the EU, the AU does not have any powers to legally force its members to implement certain resolutions. We wish to address the following concerns and recommendations to all SADC governments and the EU meeting at the SADC-EU Ministerial meeting in Gaborone, Botswana from 29-30 November 2000. We stress the need for appropriate and timely information to be made available to civil society groups to ensure their meaningful participation. of Restrictive measures, or sanctions, are one of the EU's tools to promote the objectives of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)..

Cultural diversity is one of the emblems of the EU and its Member States and a tool to strengthen cultural relations beyond our borders, to connect people worldwide, to share values, to improve international relations and to learn from each others practice.. In the context of universal human rights, and given the high level of intolerance towards ACP nationals in Europe, we urge SADC Ministers to engage in active dialogue with their EU counterparts to address this injustice, as part of the relationships of partnership' that Cotonou aims to promote between the EU and Africa. As civil society and governments in the region together, we must examine much more critically the real benefits of the partnership with Europe as it is structured to date. The Delegation of the European Union (EU) to the African Union (AU) was created in 2008. (1,2 MB PDF-File), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Hiroshimastr. Every day, events are organised worldwide by the European Union Delegations and its partners. This organisation, which is in charge of the regional integration of Central Africa, is recognised by the African Union (AU). - 48 Seiten = 1,2 MB PDF-File. Because civil society organisations are not involved enough in internal African or the European-African dialogue, their participation is in the view of the FES an elementary component of any and all discussions. The Delegation of the European Union in Zambia is also responsible for managing official relations between the European Union (EU) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa - COMESA. This situation applies at the national level, but is also relevant to the institutions set up in the Cotonou Agreement. If African countries are not successful in implementing democratic reforms to the benefit of their populations and offering them prospects for the future, it will also have an impact on Europe. It is combined with three specific regional protocols, (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) focusing on the needs of each region. However, we stress the need to guard against Euro-centric interpretations of democracy and good governance and the arbitrary application of sanctions. At the last Summit held in Brussels on 17 and 18 February 2022, a. was adopted, with four deliverables at its heart: (i) Global Gateway Africa-Europe Investment Package - with EUR 150 billion worth of grants and investment supported by the EU budget (ii) renewed and enhanced cooperation for peace and security and (iii) on migration and mobility (iv) and a commitment to multilateralism within the rules-based international order, with the UN at its core. In an increasingly interconnected world, Europes security starts abroad. The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs shapes the standing of the European Union on the global stage. The EU works to ensure that migration takes place in a safe, regular and sustainable manner. Looking for an exciting job in the field of external relations, foreign affairs and security? Since 2015, the EU has significantly improved its capacity to tackle Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI), protecting the EUs democratic processes, security and citizens. The Delegation of the European Union in Zambia is also responsible for managing official relations between the European Union (EU) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa - COMESA. EU political dialogue in the region focuses on matters related to peace and security, such as the establishment of the African Peace and Security Architecture, security and development issues in the gulf of Guinea, and the ECCAS mission in Central Africa Republic, financed through the African Peace Facility. Any future loans should be approved by national bodies where all stakeholders are represented, and the aims and terms scrutinised and subject to endorsement by national Parliaments. : Bonn : FES, 2021ISBN 978-3-98628-016-1, Download publication

All over the world, theEU works toprevent and resolveconflicts, tosupportresilient democracies, to promotehuman rightsandsustainable development, tofightclimate change, and to contribute to a rules-based global order. The EU and SADC countries must commit themselves fully to the effective control of illegal trade in natural resources and arms. However, objectives such as those set out in the Cotonou Partnership Agreement of "integrating ACP countries into the world economy" threaten to undermine regional integration and marginalize ordinary men and women from participating in the mainstream economic and political activity. - Brussels ; Berlin : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung EU Office ; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Africa Department, January 2021. Migration is a global phenomenon presenting a unique set of challenges while offering substantial benefits to countries of origin and destination as well as migrants. The implementation of neo-liberal policies has placed a disproportionate burden on women as family providers and carers. Particular attention must be paid to the problems of the BNLS states who as SACU members are de facto integrated into the EU-South Africa free trade area. SADC agreements should aim to ensure that all investment policies at the national and regional levels are appropriately regulated and coordinated to avoid counter-productive intra-regional competition through competing foreign investment policies and incentives. The EU is West Africas largest trading partner and supports the region in many areas with the goal of improving peoples living conditions and ensuring sustainable development.

The EU and SADC should commit themselves to paying special attention to people with disabilities. The Africa-EU Partnership is the formal political channel for the EUs relations with Africa. The relationship between Africa and Europe remains both unequal and inequitable. The 2000 Cotonou Agreement with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries replaced the 1975 Lom Convention. We are convinced of our own role in monitoring and improving our governments' policies and practices and participating in all policy debates. This is intended to contribute to greater understanding, trust and confidence between the two partners while at the same time helping to defuse potential future conflicts. 7. In this context, too, all SADC member states must share information on all exchanges that they hold on a national basis with EU officials and negotiators with respect to the Cotonou processes. The European Economic Development Funds (EDF) as well as the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa finance this cooperation. Grants are managed by EuropeAid (DEVCO) or DG Near, the EEAS does not manage any grant.

- Electronic ed. Election observation missions (EOMs) provide a comprehensive, independent and impartial assessment of an electoral process according to international standards for democratic elections. This must start with pursuing the goals of the African states towards the realisation of an African Economic Community (AEC) and the strengthening of regional economic groupings as building blocks towards this end. Strategic assessments at the national and regional level must be undertaken prior to engaging in trade negotiations with the EU. We recall the commitments made in the Cotonou Agreement to involve civil society in political dialogue processes. - (Together towards justainability)Einheitssacht. As of today, there are 18 ongoing CSDP missions and operations, 11 of which are civilian, and 7 military. COMESA was established by treaty in 1994, with the goal of being "a fully integrated, internationally competitive regional economic community with high standards of living for all its people, ready to merge into an African Economic Community" (Article 3 of the COMESA Treaty. Contactthe European External Action Service, ask general questions on the European Union orgetinformation on visiting the EEAS. We, as African civil society organizations, are committed to the multiple aims and ideals of regional cooperation and development integration. Considering the close correlation between debt cancellation and poverty reduction, the EU countries must lead other creditor governments in unconditionally writing off debt owed by African countries in order to release resources for development. The EU relationship with the Sahel region and, in particular, with the G5 Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger) is of strategic importance to the EU in terms of security and stability, international climate and sustainable development commitments and migration routes linked to Europe. Trade arrangements should be driven by development imperatives rather than by the dogmatic objective of "integrating ACP countries into the world economy" through indiscriminate trade liberalization. Investment strategies should focus on enhancing local productive capacities and diversifying production with a view to achieving broad-based economic empowerment. In the face of increased global instability, the EU needs to take more responsibility for its own security and increase its capacity to act autonomously. The most important external partner of the African Union since it was founded in 2002 is the European Union (EU). Recognising the Role and Rights of Civil Society. 1. The overwhelming external dependency of our resource-rich regions can only be overcome through intensified programmes of regional integration and cooperation. Gender equality and womens empowerment, but also diversity in the broadest sense of the word, are political objectives and priorities of the EU in all of its internal and external policy. SADC member states must respond jointly to the EU's proposals to establish free trade areas, in order not to allow the EU to divide and rule by exploiting the real and perceived differences between them. The EU Delegation to the Republic of Djibouti is responsible for regional cooperation with the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD). The European Union has Special Representatives in different countries and regions of the world. The year 2020 will in many ways set the course for medium- and long-term cooperation between the European Union and Africa, accompanied with critical and differenciated insights, events and publications.More information. Every effort must be made to utilize all terms and possibilities within the TDCA to protect the interests and needs of the BNLS. The Regional Indicative Programme (RIP) for Central Africa covers relations with three regional organisations: Relations between the European Union (EU) and Africa cover areas such as peace and security, democracy, human rights, development and sustainable economic growth. - (Globale und regionale Ordnung)Electronic ed. The EU prioritises development and stability in the wider region and neighbourhood, working in close partnership with its neighbours to the East and South and supporting the reforms required by countries that want to become EU members. The EU should not tie aid to their own national and corporate economic interests, and all aid should be targeted towards the building and strengthening of productive capacity in SADC as determined by the national priorities of the member states and regional programmes. At the regional level, the European Union remains very active in the promotion of peace and security, the management of natural resources, addressing climate change, build resilience, migration and regional integration as well as support to IGAD as a regional organisation. New geopolitical rivalries only serve to underline its role as a reliable and stable partner, and a champion of the rules-based international order. Since the first CSDP missions and operations were launched back in 2003, the EU has undertaken 36 overseas operations, using civilian and military missions and operations in several countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.