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Written by Marcin Grajewski,
The European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) will hold their fifth summit on 29-30 November 2017 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with the aim of strengthening political and economic relations between the two continents. The focus of the meeting is on investing in youth, which is a priority for Africa, where 60% of the population is under the age of 25. Other key topics include security, governance and democracy, human rights, migration and mobility, as well as investment and trade, skills development and job-creation.
Relations between Africa and the European Union are governed by partially overlapping policy frameworks. The most important ones are the EU-ACP Cotonou Agreement from 2000 and the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) agreed in 2007. Relations with Northern African countries are governed by the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED) launched in 2008 and the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP).
This note offers links to a series of recent studies from major international think tanks and research institutes on EU-African relations and other issues related to the continent and its countries. More reports on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) can be found in a previous edition of ‘What Think Tanks are Thinking’ published in October 2017.
EU-Africa relations
Can the Africa-EU Partnership be revived?
Istituto Affari Internazionali, November 2017
EU’s financial instruments for access to energy: Support in remote and poor areas in Africa
European Centre for Development Policy Management, November 2017
A message to African and European leaders: ‘More of the same is not good enough’
European Centre for Development Policy Management, November 2017
Western Sahara: Why the EU should take a more active role
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, November 2017
Wishful thinking underpins the EU’s new Africa plan
Friends of Europe, October 2017
Time to reset African Union-European Union relations
International Crisis Group, October 2017
The end and the beginning: the EU, Africa and the need for a new migration regime
Martens Centre for European Studies, October 2017
ACP-EU relations beyond 2020: Engaging the future or perpetuating the past?
European Centre for Development Policy Management, September 2017
The new EU Global Strategy and what it means for Morocco
OCP Policy Center, September 2016
Macron’s Africa “problem”: Will a Marshall Plan for Africa make a real difference?
Istituto Affari Internazionali, August 2017
Towards EU-MENA shared prosperity
Bruegel, August 2017
Post-Cotonou: The modernisation of the ACP partnership
Fondation Robert Schuman, July 2017
Europe’s African border: Why Brussels views events in the Sahel as vital to EU security
Carnegie Middle East Center, July 2017
Electrifying Africa: How to make Europe’s contribution count
Bruegel, June 2017
Afrique-France: Une relation nouvelle?
Institut des relations internationales et stratégiques, June 2017
The impact of Economic Partnership Agreements on the development of African value chains: Case studies of the Kenyan dairy value chain and Namibian fisheries and horticulture value chains
European Centre for Development Policy Management, June 2017
Time to move towards an interest-driven Africa-EU political partnership
European Centre for Development Policy Management, June 2017
Compact with Africa: Fostering private long-term investment in Africa
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, May 2017
The makings of an African century: Where African and European ambitions meet
European Political Strategy Centre, May 2017
Towards a recalibration of EU-North Africa relations
Brookings Institution, May 2017
EU-Africa relations: Strategies for a renewed partnership
Friends of Europe, May 2017
Central and Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa: Prospects for sustained re-engagement
Chatham House, May 2017
Did the European Union light a beacon of hope in North Africa? Assessing the effectiveness of EU democracy promotion in Tunisia
College of Europe, May 2017
Bordering on crisis: Europe, Africa, and a new approach to crisis management
European Council on Foreign Relations, April 2017
The EU’s construction of the Mediterranean (2003-2017)
Istituto Affari Internazionali, April 2017
The EU’s framing of the Mediterranean (1990-2002): Building a Euro-Mediterranean partnership
Istituto Affari Internazionali, April 2017
Assessing the legal and political implications of the post-Cotonou negotiations for the Economic Partnership Agreements
German Development Institute, April 2017
EU Cultural Diplomacy in the MENA region: A qualitative mapping of initiatives promoting regional cooperation
Institute for European Studies, April 2017
The EU, the US and the international strategic dimension of Sub-Saharan Africa: peace, security and development in the Horn of Africa
Istituto Affari Internazionali, March 2017
Matching means to priorities: Challenges for EU-Africa relations in 2017
European Centre for Development Policy Management, January 2017
The EU’s migration policy in Africa: Five ways forward
European Council on Foreign Relations, December 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s economic engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Drivers, constraints and future prospects
Chatham House, November 2017
Kenya election fallout makes institutional challenges impossible to ignore
Chatham House, November 2017
What went wrong with Kenya’s elections?
Council on Foreign Relations, November 2017
The river Congo: Africa’s sleeping giant
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, November 2017
The Mugabe story and power in global health governance
Clingendael, November 2017
Stratégie américaine au Sahel: Vers un tournant décisif?
Institut Thomas More, November 2017
What is the Sah-G5 force and why should the U.S. support it?
Rand Corporation, November 2017
The Trump administration and Africa so far
Council on Foreign Relations, November 2017
African futures: Horizon 2025
European Union Institute for Security Studies, October 2017
Angola’s Africa policy
Egmont, October 2017
Out of Africa: Why people migrate
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, October 2017
Eye of the storm: Ethiopia amid Middle Eastern conflict
Clingendael, October 2017
Reflecting on the security and development nexus in Africa
Friends of Europe, October 2017
Monitoring de la stabilité régionale dans le bassin sahélien et en Afrique de l’ouest: Juillet à septembre 2017
Groupe de Recherche et d’Information sur la Paix et la Sécurité, October 2017
The role of international institutions in fostering sub-Saharan Africa’s electrification
Centre on Global Energy Policy, Bruegel, September 2017
Fading democracies in Africa
Foundation for European Progressive Studies, September 2017
Prêts pour l’Afrique d’aujourd’hui?
Institut Montaigne, September 2017
The security-migration-development nexus in the Sahel: A reality check
Istituto Affari Internazionali, September 2017
Double-edged sword: Vigilantes in African counter-insurgencies
International Crisis Group, September 2017
Herders against farmers: Nigeria’s expanding deadly conflict
International Crisis Group, September 2017
Size matters: Developing businesses of scale in sub-Saharan Africa
Chatham House, September 2017
Inspiring women: Experimental evidence on sharing entrepreneurial skills in Uganda
Trinity College Dublin, September 2017
Regional markets, politics and value chains: The case of West African cement
European Centre for Development Policy Management, September 2017
African Union: What are the possible options for strategic autonomy?
OCP Policy Center, August 2017
Ominous alliances: On the correlation between weak statehood, international cocaine trading and Islamist terrorism in West Africa
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, August 2017
Young continent, old rulers: What does the future hold for democracy in Africa?
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, August 2017
Zimbabwe: A roadmap for economic transformation
Overseas Development Institute, August 2017
Burundi blues: The road to violence & back
European Union Institute for Security Studies, June 2017
Gulf of Guinea: Pirates and other tales
European Union Institute for Security Studies, June 2017
Jihadism in Mali and the Sahel: Evolving dynamics and patterns
European Union Institute for Security Studies, June 2017
The politics of security sector reform in the Sahel
Clingendael, May 2-017
Why Africa matters to US national security
Atlantic Council, May 2017
Africa–G20 and proposals for Marshall plans
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, April 2017
Africa growing? Past, present and future
European Union Institute for Security Studies, April 2017
Unrest in Ethiopia: Plus ça change?
European Union Institute for Security Studies, April 2017
Conflict management under the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA)
European Centre for Development Policy Management, April 2017
Burundi: The army in crisis
International Crisis Group, April 2017
Organised crime and fragile states: African variations
European Union Institute for Security Studies, March 2017
A new climate trilateralism? Opportunities for cooperation between the EU, China and African countries on addressing climate change?
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, March 2017
Boko Haram au Tchad: Au-delà de la réponse sécuritaire
International Crisis Group, March 2017
Ghana’s elections: Regional implications and lessons from electoral peace structures and processes
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, February 2017
Food price shocks and government expenditure composition: Evidence from African countries
Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International, February 2017
South Africa’s missed chance at the African Union
Foundation for European Progressive Studies, February 2017
Niger and Boko Haram: Beyond counter-insurgency
International Crisis Group, February 2017
Rising powers and the provision of transnational public goods: Conceptual considerations and features of South Africa as a case study
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, January 2017
Read this briefing on ‘The EU and Africa‘ on the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.
