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2025
Our latest issue:
- 12 June 2025: One-stop borders – Finance for SRHR – Environmental peacebuilding
- 05 June 2025: Finance for development – New EU pact for the Mediterranean – Democracy
- 28 May 2025: AU-EU partnership – Digital diaries – Democratic trends
- 22 May 2025: Perceptions of the EU’s international role – Africa-Europe digital partnership
- 15 May 2025: EU-AU – Migration – Lobito Corridor
- 08 May 2025: Next AU-EU summit – MFF – Migration drivers
- 30 April 2025: NDICI-Global Europe – EU Trust Fund in the Horn of Africa – No-stop borders in Africa
- 17 April 2025: Lobito Corridor – Food systems – Energy and climate – Shrinking civic space
- 10 April 2025: Fragility and the MFF – EU-North Africa climate and energy ties – Green industrialisation – AI
- 3 April 2025: Green transition – EU-India tech partnership – EU instruments to counter fragility
- 27 March 2025: EU competitiveness – Critical raw materials – Food systems
- 20 March 2025: The EU’s long-term budget and Africa – Finance for development – Green industrialisation
- 13 March 2025: EU external financing under the next MFF – Aid cuts – Migration
- 6 March 2025: Global Gateway – EU and India – Women’s Day – Africa-Europe cooperation
- 20 February 2025: New AU Commission – Eastern DRC conflict – Free movement of people in Africa
- 13 February 2025: USAID turmoil and the EU – ECOWAS evolutions – Health – AI
- 6 February 2025: Digital infrastructure and tech sovereignty – AI governance – Fragility – Finance for development
- 30 January 2025: Finance for climate and development – Water, energy and food – Flanders’ partnerships with Africa
- 23 January 2025: The EU’s next long-term budget – Financing for development – International cooperation and EU interests
- 16 January 2025: Climate finance – Green industrialisation – The EU’s geoeconomic shift
2024
- 12 December 2024: Syria – EU engagement in fragile settings – EU tech – Green steel – Labour migration
- 05 December 2024: EU divisions in the Middle East – Labour migration – Green economy and climate – Finance – Trade
- 28 November 2024: New EU team – Civic space – Youth – Digital transformation – AI and elections – Migration
- 21 November 2024: Carbon border tax – Perceptions of China and the EU in Africa – Cross-border data flows
- 14 November 2024: Multilateralism – Investment in emerging markets – Movement of people and goods in Africa
- 7 November: US elections – New EU Commission – COP29 – Local currency lending
- 31 October: New EU Commission – Fragility – Africa-Europe relations – Food, climate and green industrialisation
- 24 October: The EU’s offer to Global South countries – Institutional investment – Data policies in Africa
- 17 October 2024: Cross-border data flows in Africa – Transboundary climate risks – Migration
- 10 October 2024: Democracy – Migration – Climate change
- 3 October 2024: Africa’s democracy agendas – Raw materials – Circular economy
- 26 September 2024: Global Gateway and local authorities – Trade in Africa – Introducing our new director
- 19 September 2024: New European Commission – Summit of the Future – Europe’s financial architecture for development – Voluntary carbon markets
- 12 September 2024: The EU and China in the Global South – Health – New EU Commission – Digital literacy
- 9 July 2024: UK elections – EU development shifts – Horticulture – Critical raw materials
- 2 July 2024: EU gender policy – Digital transformation – Annual Report 2023
- 25 June 2024: Critical raw materials - Female entrepreneurship - Digital skills
- 18 June 2024: Crises in the EU’s neighbourhood – Gender – African governance – Green industrialisation
- 11 June 2024: First reactions to the EU election results – G7 – Global Gateway – Gender
- 4 June 2024: European elections – Health – Gender and migration
- 31 May 2024: Special edition: To the new leaders of Europe
- 28 May 2024: The new EU leadership: Money, migration and gender equality
- 14 May 2024: The EU and human development – AfCFTA – World Migration Report
- 7 May 2024: EU climate leadership – Resource nationalism – AU-civil society engagement
- 30 April 2024: EU industrial policy – Food systems, climate and innovation – African data protection laws
- 23 April 2024: The EU looks East – Special drawing rights for food – Digital payments in Africa
- 16 April 2024: EU elections – Debt-for-climate swaps – Senegal’s democratic renaissance – EU-Africa migration agenda
- 9 April 2024: Green industrialisation in Africa – Digital skills in Senegal – We are hiring
- 26 March 2024: Digital skills and skills mobility – The EU in the Sahel – Development finance
- 19 March 2024: Green hydrogen opportunities and clean economy transitions in African countries
- 12 March 2024: Migration and social media – EU development policy – South Africa in the world
- 5 March 2024: International Women’s Day – Development cooperation – Local authorities – Green transition
- 27 February 2024: Instability in West Africa and its consequences for AU-EU relations, democracy and free movement
- 13 February 2024: Africa’s energy systems – Digital and AI governance – Migration cooperation – Policy coherence
- 6 February 2024: EU international cooperation – Digital trade – Labour migration – ECOWAS and governance
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