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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-10-2025-0474

on behalf of the ESN Group · Rapporteur: Marc Jongen, Tomasz Froelich

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This resolution on renewing the EU-Africa partnership ahead of the Angola Summit calls for making the fight against illegal migration a priority, negotiating readmission agreements, and linking development funds to cooperation on returns. It also demands that EU aid and Global Gateway projects be conditional on partner countries' performance on migration, terrorism, corruption, extremism, population growth, and treatment of minorities like the Boers in South Africa.

Key points

  1. Notes that the EU-Africa partnership has not achieved sufficient mutual benefit, with insufficient return on EU funds and insufficient links to preventing illegal migration.
  2. Expresses concern about corruption, political mismanagement, and extremism in Africa, questioning the effectiveness of EU development policy.
  3. Calls on the EU to make development aid and cooperation conditional on serious improvement of the situation of Christians in Africa, citing persecution and violence.
  4. Criticises the Commission and Council for failing to make progress on combating illegal migration and calls for making it a priority at the EU-AU summit in Luanda on 24-25 November 2025.
  5. Advocates for an agreement on combating people-smuggling and human trafficking, and for negotiating readmission agreements with AU member states.
  6. Calls for suspending EU development funds for AU member states that do not cooperate sufficiently in repatriation, and for reviewing the EUR 545 million support package promised on 29 September 2025.
  7. Demands that future Global Gateway projects be granted preferentially to AU member states making significant progress on combating illegal migration and human trafficking.
  8. Calls for prioritising EU development aid for countries demonstrating best practice in combating terrorism, corruption, and extremism, and for curbing unsustainable population growth.
  9. Calls for withholding development aid from countries that destabilise neighbours through military intervention.
  10. Demands that the EU's Strategic Partnership with South Africa be conditional on ending legal discrimination against Boers, compensating expropriated farmers and relatives of murdered Boers, and protecting the minority.

Who is affected

  • African Union member states: may face suspension of EU development funds if they do not cooperate on repatriation.
  • South Africa: continuation of EU Strategic Partnership made conditional on ending discrimination against Boers and providing compensation.
  • Christians in Africa: EU aid to their countries is to be linked to improving their situation.

Figures and deadlines

  • 133 400 illegal entries into the EU between January and September 2025.
  • Over 1.2 million asylum applications pending in the EU in December 2024.
  • Only around 20 % of rejected asylum seekers leave the EU.
  • Africa's population expected to grow to almost 4 billion by 2100; Nigeria reaching 477 million.
  • Foreign direct investment and official development assistance to sub-Saharan Africa reached nearly USD 2 trillion between 1980 and 2018; illicit financial flows reached USD 1 trillion.
  • Financial fraud and corruption cost Africa more than USD 90 billion per year.
  • EUR 4.7 billion Global Gateway investment package promised to South Africa this year.
  • EUR 545 million support package to African countries promised on 29 September 2025.