In its new circular economy action plan, the European Commission proposes to develop a comprehensive strategy for textiles. According to Jeske van Seters and Nadia Ashraf, this offers a great opportunity to move away from the prevailing linear ‘take-make-dispose’ approaches towards greater environmental and social sustainability.

Bruce Byiers, Alfonso Medinilla and Jan Vanheukelom take a look at regional integration processes on the African continent – and the need for external actors to adaptively engage with these dynamics.

Before the COVID-19 outbreak led to travel bans across the world, the EU’s new visa code with third countries came into effect. Yet, it is still unclear to African policymakers how these changes will be implemented by EU member states and how they will affect migration cooperation.