Partnership with a purpose: EU-Africa relations in 2021
Euractiv
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Thursday, January 7, 2021
The EU’s plans to strike a ‘strategic partnership’ with Africa were one the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. After the European Commission set out its stall in a March 2020 strategic paper, summits were cancelled and it is unclear whether EU and African Union leaders will agree on an agenda with the ambition needed for a genuine ‘strategic partnership’ this year. Portugal, which holds the rotating EU Council presidency until July, is keen to push the agenda. “Africa should and could be a key partner of the EUâ€, a Portuguese diplomat said on Tuesday (5 January). “We need to initiate a dialogue without taboos – security, migration, trade, development etc,†the diplomat added. However, while both sides should be able to agree on low-hanging fruit such as greater co-operation on digital policy and agriculture, the elephant in the room is likely to be trade.
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