On renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit
B-10-2025-0471
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group · Rapporteur: Erik Marquardt, Lena Schilling, Tilly Metz, Mounir Satouri
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Parliament's resolution ahead of the seventh EU-AU Summit calls for a renewed partnership of equals, aligning cooperation with the SDGs, Agenda 2063 and the Paris Agreement, and stresses human development, peace, climate action and democratic oversight.¶¶¶ It urges the EU to ensure Global Gateway and Global Europe funding respects aid effectiveness, avoids debt distress, and prioritises poverty reduction, while supporting African-led peace, human rights, gender equality and youth mobility.¶¶¶ The resolution also calls for institutionalising parliamentary dialogue, reviving the Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and adopting a Joint Action Plan for 2025-2030 at the Luanda Summit.¶¶¶
Key points
- Reaffirms commitment to a partnership of equals with the AU, grounded in shared values and delivering benefits for people on both continents.¶
- Calls for aligning all EU-Africa cooperation frameworks, including NDICI – Global Europe and Global Gateway, with the SDGs, Paris Agreement and Kunming-Montreal Framework.¶
- Urges the Commission to ringfence and adequately fund programmes for democracy, rule of law, human rights and civil society in Africa under the next multiannual financial framework.¶
- Calls for Global Gateway projects to be co-designed with African stakeholders, aligned with local priorities, and implemented transparently with parliamentary oversight.¶¶
- Urges member states to step up progress towards the 0.7% ODA target and prioritise grants and concessional financing for least developed and fragile countries.¶
- Calls for EU support for debt restructuring and reform of the global financial architecture, and for cooperation to combat tax evasion and illicit financial flows.¶¶
- Calls for greater support for African-led peace operations, conflict prevention, and governance reforms, including anti-corruption and electoral observation.¶¶¶
- Urges scaling up Erasmus+, Horizon Europe and Intra-Africa Academic Mobility, and continued cooperation on health security and local pharmaceutical production.¶¶
- Calls for a rights-based approach to migration, expanding legal pathways, and addressing root causes of irregular migration.¶
- Calls for climate finance, including an additional USD 1.3 trillion per year, and for EU-AU annual high-level dialogue on climate and sustainability.¶¶¶
- Welcomes AU's G20 membership, supports a permanent AU seat on the UN Security Council, and urges institutionalising parliamentary dimension of EU-AU summits.¶¶
- Supports reviving the Joint Parliamentary Assembly between the European Parliament and the Pan-African Parliament.¶
Who is affected
- African and European citizens, particularly youth and women, who stand to benefit from scaled-up education, health and mobility programmes.¶¶¶
- Civil society organisations, human rights defenders and independent media in Africa, who are to receive enhanced support.¶¶
- African countries facing debt distress, which are to receive EU support for debt restructuring and concessional financing.¶¶
- The AU and its member states, as partners in a renewed strategic partnership with the EU.¶¶