Safety, health and stability.
These are the three common challenges that Europe and Africa want to tackle to "change the game" of their relations at the 6th European Union-African Union summit this Thursday and Friday in Brussels.
Tensions with Russia around Ukraine were invited to the summit with a meeting devoted to the “latest developments” of the crisis, before its opening scheduled for 2 p.m.
Forty of the 55 AU member leaders must then meet with their EU counterparts to define this new partnership.
"A partnership postulates exchange and sharing", underlined the President of the European Council, the Belgian Charles Michel, and the President of the African Union, the Senegalese Macky Sall, in a joint forum.
Seven round tables in total
The discussions will take place in seven round tables to “avoid the litany of speeches during a long plenary without results” and “animated exchanges” are expected, explained the organizers of the summit.
Emmanuel Macron made it a highlight of the French presidency of the Council of the EU.
“We want a summit that changes the game,” we insist in Paris.
But Europe will not be able to help an Africa where instability and insecurity reign, warns the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell.
Coups d'Etat, conflicts, terrorism, human trafficking, piracy plague the continent and have an impact on Europe, underlines Borrell.
The African Union suspended Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and South Sudan after coups.
Their new leaders will not participate in the Brussels summit which will end this Friday at midday with a joint declaration on the new relationship.
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