The European union’s development policy toward Africa

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/15/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

European union

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Summary :

Introduction.
African development as one of the first European policies, since the Rome Treaty.
1. The reasons of Euro-African co-operations and development aids.
2. The main affairs concerned by this cooperation, the priorities, and means of application.
Lisbon summit, as well as the former agreements and the African development.
1. The easing of African development mainly through the set up of trade partnership agreements by EU.
2. Evolutions of the EU/ACP relationship.
3. The original strategy that distinguish from the usual international organisations one.
Introduction of a new European strategy towards Africa in the recent Lisbon summit.
1. A new trade-approach that takes the last failures into consideration.
2. EU not giving priority to economic development issues.
3. EU's renewed towards Africa.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

On December 8th and 9th 2007 the summit of African and european leaders has hold in Lisbon. It is the second ever Summit between heads of states and governments from EU and africa after the Cairo Summit in 2000. The 52 countries of the African union, the 27 european member states, and the kingdom of Morocco attended it last week-end to settle a new Euro-African agreement in a summit that is both addressing the issues of trade, debt, political issues, peace building and conflict prevention, and development. We will especially focus on this last issue. The today's EU is the first trade power in the world. It owns one quarter of the world wealth and, furthermore, is in first place in the world, as far as public development aid to poor countries is concerned. Today's africa is often quoted as the last poor continent in the world. It is constituted with 53 countries which present very various states of development.