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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2025/2933(RSP))

On renewing the EU-Africa Partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit

B-10-2025-0470

on behalf of the PfE Group · Rapporteur: PierreRomain Thionnet, Matthieu Valet, Thierry Mariani

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This resolution sets Parliament's priorities for the EU-Africa Partnership ahead of the Angola Summit, covering migration, security, development aid, raw materials, and human rights. It calls for binding migration agreements, conditional aid on cooperation, an audit of EU funding, and a focus on the Sahel and DRC.

Key points

  1. Calls for redefining the EU-AU partnership based on mutual respect, sovereignty, and shared interests, moving beyond donor-recipient dynamics.
  2. Urges focus on the Sahel region, noting destabilisation threatens Europe via illegal migration and terrorism.
  3. Calls for an urgent audit of EU development funding and an end to funding ideological projects like blenders for schools without electricity.
  4. Welcomes regional initiatives for domestic resource mobilisation, especially for education and job creation.
  5. Stresses using all tools, including conditionalities on aid, trade, and visa-free travel, to pressure non-EU countries to take back illegal migrants and criminals.
  6. Demands EU development cooperation be conditional on good governance and effective migration and border control cooperation.
  7. Urges the Commission and Member States to conclude binding migration partnership agreements with African countries, without additional legal pathways.
  8. Highlights the strategic importance of African raw materials and calls for fair, transparent, sustainable resource partnerships.
  9. Notes Global Gateway is burdened by bureaucracy and standards, hindering EU companies against Chinese competition.
  10. Condemns violence in the DRC, welcomes the 27 June 2025 peace agreement, but stresses it needs concrete, verifiable steps.
  11. Calls on Nigeria to protect Christians from violence and persecution, and on the Commission to involve churches in EU programmes.

Who is affected

  • African countries: face conditions on aid and trade, binding migration agreements, and pressure to take back illegal migrants.
  • EU companies: affected by Global Gateway bureaucracy and standards, hindering competitiveness.
  • Churches in Africa: to be involved in implementing EU programmes.
  • Nigeria: called on to ensure safety of Christians.

Figures and deadlines

  • EU-AU Summit in Luanda, Angola, on 24-25 November 2025, marking 25th anniversary of partnership.
  • Over EUR 150 billion earmarked under Global Gateway for African infrastructure until 2027.
  • EUR 163 billion in official development assistance from 2011 to 2023, nearly 45% of total.
  • Africa's population projected to reach nearly 2.5 billion by 2050.
  • Peace agreement signed on 27 June 2025 in Washington.