AU-EU relations one year after the 2022 summit

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Almost one year has passed since the long-awaited sixth EU-AU summit took place in Brussels – a year in which we witnessed a multitude of crises and geopolitical shifts. What has become of the commitments African and European leaders made at the summit? And how have last year’s geopolitics and crises impacted the relationship? 

Between February and April 2023, ECDPM is preparing a series of public and closed-door events, opinion pieces and analysis that will look at how the AU-EU partnership has evolved in the past year and propose ways to improve relations between the two continents. 

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