| Author (Corporate) | European Union Institute for Security Studies |
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| Series Title | Issue Alert |
| Series Details | No.26, April 2014 |
| Publication Date | 11/04/2014 |
| ISSN | 2315-1129 |
| Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
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The 4th EU-Africa Summit held in Brussels in April 2014 brought together 80 national delegations, 41 of them led by heads of state or government. African leaders ignored Zimbabwe’s call for a boycott or postponement of the summit, following the EU’s refusal to lift travel restrictions on President’s Mugabe’s wife. Described by the prime minister of Lesotho as a ‘business-like’ event, the summit took place at a busy time for African summitry, which now includes a United States-Africa meeting (scheduled for August 2014), and, since 2000, regular China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summits. While all these top-level meetings are a sign of the growing geopolitical importance of the continent, both the EU’s attempts to strengthen its partnership with Africa and its Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) have, to date, largely disappointed. The summit in Brussels sought, therefore, to place the partnership on a firmer footing. |
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| Source Link | https://publications.europa.eu/s/djtl |
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| Countries / Regions | Africa, Europe |
