At the Lisbon EU-Africa Summit, a historic Joint Strategy was signed to govern the EU´s and Africa’s relationship, aiming at partnership and mutual accountability and thus moving beyond the recipient-donor relationship of the past. Having identified eight priority areas of collaboration in the EU-Africa Action Plan (2008-2010) there are numerous challenges laying ahead especially with regards to the implementation of commitments made in the Strategy and Action Plan.
The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and the South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA) jointly examine this highly relevant topic in a conference on European Union and Africa: Emerging priorities, opportunities and challenges on March 5th 2008, 14.00 – March 6th 2008, 13.00 at the European Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Avenue de l’Yser 11, 1040 Brussels.
The conference will focus on three priority areas, namely: Democratic governance and human rights; post-conflict reconstruction and the role of the private sector and the interface between energy security and climate change.
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