A Comprehensive EU Strategy for Africa - Development, Humanitarian Aid and Climate Change
The new EU Strategy for Africa attempts to reflect the continent’s growing relevance within a partnership rather than through a donor-recipient framework. However, this leads to a prioritisation of the formal, productive and technology sectors as well as climate mitigation at the expense of agriculture, informal sector, human development and climate adaptation. With such skewed priorities, this Strategy is ill-adapted for the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Institutionally, political will is needed to ensure that the continent-to-continent approach is not hampered by parallel, contradictory and fragmenting forces within the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) governance frameworks. Financially, mutual accountability must be strengthened by joint funding of joint actions. An inclusive institutional mechanism is also needed to promote political and civil society participation as well as policy coherence for sustainable development beyond migration and climate. More generally, the Strategy advances a government-to-government type of partnership at the expense of a more people-centred approach that is more in line with the ‘principled pragmatism’ of the EU.
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Ondřej HORKÝ-HLUCHÁŇ
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- Africká unie
- ekologická politika
- EKONOMIKA
- evropská politika sousedských vztahů
- EVROPSKÁ UNIE
- hospodářská politika
- humanitární pomoc
- MEZINÁRODNÍ ORGANIZACE
- mezinárodní politika
- MEZINÁRODNÍ VZTAHY
- mimoevropské organizace
- mnohostranné vztahy
- občanská společnost
- POLITICKÝ ŽIVOT
- politický život a bezpečnost veřejnosti
- politika spolupráce
- politika v oblasti změny klimatu
- poškozování životního prostředí
- rozvojová pomoc
- společná zahraniční a bezpečnostní politika
- strategie EU
- struktura Společenství
- trvale udržitelný rozvoj
- změna klimatu
- ŽIVOTNÍ PROSTŘEDÍ