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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-10-2025-0472

on behalf of The Left Group · Rapporteur: Marc Botenga

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This resolution calls for a fundamental reset of EU-Africa relations based on equality, solidarity, and African sovereignty, addressing peace, trade, energy, debt, tax, migration, and development. It demands an end to external interference, arms embargoes on Rwanda and Sudan, and a ban on armed drones for extrajudicial killings. It calls for renegotiating trade agreements, cancelling unsustainable debts, and reforming the global financial architecture. It urges replacing externalised migration policies with legal pathways and protecting climate-displaced persons. It stresses the need for policy coherence for development and binding participation of African civil society in partnership frameworks.

Key points

  1. Calls for a fundamental reset of EU-Africa relations based on equality, solidarity, mutual respect, and African sovereignty over development priorities.
  2. Condemns foreign interference and violations of international law, particularly in Sudan and eastern DRC; calls for a military embargo on Rwanda and full respect of the arms embargo on Sudan.
  3. Urges support for a political solution in Western Sahara providing for self-determination, and condemns the EU's top-up of support for Rwanda's deployment in Mozambique.
  4. Calls for strict regulation of arms exports, alignment with Common Position 2008/944/CFSP, and a ban on armed drones for extrajudicial killings.
  5. Condemns the proliferation of private military and security companies in Africa, listing several by name.
  6. Calls for trade policy that upholds public health, food sovereignty, and environmental protection; demands binding trade and sustainable development chapters and sanctions for EU companies violating human rights.
  7. Calls for renegotiation of EPAs to secure policy space for industrialisation, and for support for African integration, including the AfCFTA.
  8. Demands suspension of the EU-Rwanda MoU on raw materials until Rwanda ceases interference and export of minerals from M23-controlled areas.
  9. Calls for large-scale investment in renewable energy, an African climate and development fund, and public ownership of energy infrastructure.
  10. Calls for cancellation of odious and unsustainable debts, a UN framework convention on sovereign debt, and conversion of debt payments into investments in public goods.
  11. Calls for measures against tax havens, illicit financial flows, and corporate tax evasion, including an EU-wide blacklist and sanctions.
  12. Calls for replacing externalised migration policies with legal pathways, protecting climate-displaced persons, and auditing the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa.

Who is affected

  • EU member states: must align arms export policies, impose embargoes, and respect African sovereignty.
  • EU institutions: Commission and Council must revise trade, investment, and migration policies.
  • African countries: benefit from debt relief, support for industrialisation, and respect for policy space.
  • Multinational corporations: face binding accountability and sanctions for human rights and environmental violations.
  • Private military and security companies: their operations are condemned as undermining peace and sovereignty.

Figures and deadlines

  • over 70 % of African exports are raw commodities
  • up to five times more on debt repayments than on healthcare
  • over USD 1.2 trillion lost through capital flight from five African countries between 1970 and 2018
  • up to 216 million people could be displaced by climate-related factors by 2050
  • over 32 million people forced to flee due to climate-related disasters in 2022
  • around four in ten girls married before age 18 in West and Central Africa
  • at least 0.7 % of gross national income to official development assistance

Legal basis: Article 21 of the Treaty on European Union and Articles 208 and 209 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union