As European foreign policy pivots south, EU-Africa relations are an important priority of the current German Presidency of the EU Council. While the COVID-19 crisis has forced Germany to change focus, shifting the EU’s long-term partnership with Africa remains a key policy concern. Germany’s presidency of the EU Council provides an opportunity to address structural challenges revealed by the current crisis, and to set the intercontinental partnership on track for a more sustainable and equitable future.
Where do European and African interests meet, and where do they diverge? Can a new partnership advance good governance? What role can the German EU Presidency play in this? And which issues should be prioritized at the EU-Africa Summit, now postponed to 2021?
Speakers
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Cheikh Tidiane Dieye
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Cheikh Tidiane Dieye is executive director of Centre African pour le Commerce, l’Intégration et le Développement.
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Karim Harris
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Karim Harris is a policy analyst with the Open Society Europe and Eurasia Program.
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Sonja Kreibich
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Sonja Kreibich is head of division for Sub-Saharan Africa for the German Federal Foreign Office.
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Marta Martinelli
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Until February 2022, Marta Martinelli was head of the EU external relations team for the Open Society European Policy Institute.
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Philippe Van Damme
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Philippe Van Damme is Policy Advisor to the managing director for Africa at the European External Action Service in Brussels. Prior, he served as EU ambassador and head of delegation in Zimbabwe and Guinea.
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