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EU-Africa Relations, China, and the African Challenge
Trouille, Jean-Marc
Trouille, Jean-Marc
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2020-03
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The African continent is a sleeping giant which will increasingly be a player to be reckoned with on the global stage. At the same time, its migration potential will be multiplied by Africa’s forthcoming demographic explosion. Consequently, the EU and Africa have a shared interest in working together towards making African development sustainable. African integration will be key towards speeding up this process.
This paper first evaluates the stakes of the African challenge for the European Union. It considers the economic potential that can be unleashed by speeding up integration processes in Africa. Second, it argues that Africa will be ‘the China of the 21st Century’, and that any development, positive or negative, taking place there will have large repercussions in Europe, and that therefore the EU and Africa are communities of destiny in need of a joint approach towards African industrialisation. Finally, it provides a roadmap of important steps that Europe needs to consider in its endeavour to support African development.
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Trouille J-M (2020) EU-Africa Relations, China, and the African Challenge. In: Reshaping the European Union Internally and Externally - A new matrix? Warsaw: Elipsa.
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