Follow-Up EU-Africa webinar series

Dear Sir or Madam,

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s Africa Department and EU Office would like to thank you for the large interest in our latest webinar series "What’s the offer? A new partnership between Europe and Africa". On Tuesday, 9 June 2020, we concluded the first part of the series with the final webinar “Europe Africa: Targeted Policy Advice in the Run-up to the AU-EU Summit” with George Mukundi (University of Cape Town; Maendeleo Group), Geert Laporte (ETTG; ECDPM) and Tanja Cox (CONCORD).

For those of you who could not participate, we invite you to watch the records of the webinars on our website. Please feel free to send us your comments and suggestions on the webinar series.

We are happy to inform you about three recent FES publications:

• Robert Kappel: “Africa-Europe Economic Cooperation. Using the Opportunities for Reorientation”. He was one of our panelists in our third session “New Finance Instruments. The EU External Investment Plan”. The paper will soon also be available in French.


• Christine Hackenesch, Julia Leininger and Karina Mross: “What the EU should do for democracy support in Africa. Ten proposals for a new strategic initiative in times of polarisation”. Christine Hackenesch was one of our panelists in our opening session "What's the offer? Expectations on the EU-Africa Year”.


• Nathan Vandeputte: “Rejuvenating EU Democracy Support in Africa. The Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) as a promising Framework for Action?”. He gave a short introduction to the new EU finance instrument in our Webinar "EU’s new finance instruments: NDICI and democracy promotion in Sub-Saharan-Africa". The paper will soon also be available in French.

Please stay updated on our activities on African-European relations which will be regularly posted on our website.

Kind regards

Your Africa Department & FES EU Office