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The EU's relations with Africa

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16/05/2013 -
1 23272 1 4th Nigeria-EU Ministerial Meeting 4th Nigeria-EU Ministerial Meeting /nigeria/docs/16052013_joint_communique_eu_nigeria_en.pdf 05/16/2013 00:00:00 05/17/2013 16:05:00 05/16/2013 00:00:00 nulldate 2013051600 0901262489c3e33e N 0901262489c3e33e /nigeria/docs/16052013_joint_communique_eu_nigeria_en.pdf 306830 pdf Y /nigeria/docs/16052013_joint_communique_eu_nigeria_en.pdf 1 /nigeria/docs/16052013_joint_communique_eu_nigeria_en.pdf /nigeria/docs/16052013_joint_communique_eu_nigeria_zz.pdf N ID_INTERNAL N N
4th Nigeria-EU Ministerial Meeting [300 KB]
16/05/2013 -
2 23272 1 19th EU-ECOWAS Political Dialogue Meeting at Ministerial Level 19th EU-ECOWAS Political Dialogue Meeting at Ministerial Level /africa/docs/16052013_ecowas_eu_communique_en.pdf 05/16/2013 00:00:00 05/17/2013 16:02:00 05/16/2013 00:00:00 nulldate 2013051600 0901262489c3cc4a N 0901262489c3cc4a /africa/docs/16052013_ecowas_eu_communique_en.pdf 178789 pdf Y /africa/docs/16052013_ecowas_eu_communique_en.pdf 1 /africa/docs/16052013_ecowas_eu_communique_en.pdf /africa/docs/16052013_ecowas_eu_communique_zz.pdf N ID_INTERNAL N N
19th EU-ECOWAS Political Dialogue Meeting at Ministerial Level [175 KB]
15/05/2013 - International Donors Conference 'Together for a New Mali' Brussels, 15 May 2013 Joint Chairs' Conclusions

EU HR/VP Catherine Ashton with former EU ambassador to Sudan, Carlo de Filippi, and current EU Special Representative to Sudan and South Sudan, Rosalind Marsden, Juba, South Sudan 09.07.11 © EU

Two grand frameworks govern EU relations with African countries. The most long-standing one is the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP), enshrined in the 1975 Lomé Convention and updated in 2000 by the Cotonou Agreement. More recently, a continental approach has gained ground, which led to the Joint-EU Africa Strategy (JAES) conceived in the 2007 EU-Africa summit in Lisbon and reflecting the pan-African dimension. For more information on the EU's sub-regional and bilateral relations with Africa see here.

Events

20/04/2012 - 3159th FOREIGN AFFAIRS Council meeting -Luxembourg, 23 April 2012 - Agenda
15/09/2011 -
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EU-South Africa Summit
29/11/2010 - 3rd Africa-EU Summit