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Title:Beyond Cairo: emerging pattern of Euro-African relationship
Author:Eyinla, Bolade M.ISNI
Year:2004
Periodical:Africa: rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione
Volume:59
Issue:2
Pages:159-178
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:OAU
European Union
Lomé Convention
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40761736
Abstract:A summit meeting involving 48 African and 15 Western European Heads of State and Government took place in Cairo, Egypt, on 3-4 April 2000, under the aegis of the OAU and the EU. This article examines the dynamics and complexity of the summit. The summit signified the beginning of the new EU policy of modifying the geographical coverage of the Lomé agreement, with a shift in emphasis from the global to the regional context. The article highlights the main features of the Cairo Declaration and the major components of the Plan of Action. Three aspects of Euro-African relations are explored in particular: emerging trends in European development aid policy towards sub-Sahara Africa, European responses to complex political emergencies in sub-Sahara Africa, and the place of sub-Sahara Africa in the evolving constellation of European foreign and security policy. In the author's opinion, the Declaration and Plan of Action can at best be regarded as optimistic assumptions, and no significant changes can be expected in Europe's Africa policy. Efforts at establishing a coherent European Africa policy will be restricted to meeting European security concerns. Bibliogr., sum. in French and Italian. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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