Africa-European Union Strategic Partnership

1. Introduction to the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership (Cotonou Agreement)
2. The former Cotonou Agreement
3. European Union-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund
4. African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP)
5. Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
6. European Union Neighborhood Policy
7. Bilateral relations of EU with Africa
8. European Union-South Africa Agreement
9. European Union-Algeria Association Agreement
10. EU Trade Agreements with Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia

The educational aims of the Subject “Africa-EU Strategic Partnership” are:

1. To understand the objectives of the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership
2. To analyze the benefits for African Countries of the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership
3. To explore EU bilateral relations with Africa

The Subject “Africa-EU Strategic Partnership” is included within the curriculum of the following academic programs at EENI Global Business School:

Doctorate in African Business.

Master in Business in Africa, International Business, Foreign Trade.

Languages: or Partenariat stratégique Afrique-Union européenn Parceria estratégica União Europeia-África Asociación estratégica UE-África.

1. By Lisbon Declaration, Africa and EU define the framework for the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership, intended to guide dialogue and cooperation between the EU and Africa
2. This objective is strengthened and complemented by specific objectives pursued within the Cotonou Agreement, trade development and cooperation agreements, the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, and the European Neighborhood Policy, including the assistance to the political reform and economic modernization
3. Strong trade links connect Europe with Africa, making the EU the largest export market for African products
4. Near 85% of cotton, fruit, and vegetables exports are imported from the European Union
5. For most of African, Caribbean and Pacific Group countries - and virtually all the ACP countries - the European Union is the largest trading partner

The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP) group involves seventy-nine member economies, all of them, except Cuba, signatories to the Cotonou Agreement that bind them to the EU: forty-eight countries from the Sub-Saharan Africa, sixteen from the Caribbean and fifteen from the Pacific.

List of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP) countries (Africa): Angola - Cape Verde - the Comoros - Benin - Botswana - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cameroon - Central African Republic - Chad - Congo (Brazzaville) - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ivory Coast - Djibouti - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Gabon - Gambia - Ghana - Republic of Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Equatorial Guinea - Kenya - Lesotho - Liberia - Madagascar - Malawi - Mali - Mauritania - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Niger - Nigeria - Rwanda - São Tomé and Príncipe - Senegal - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - Somalia - South Africa - Sudan - Eswatini - Tanzania - Togo - Uganda - Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The Africa-EU Strategic Partnership belongs to:

1. African Civilization
2. European Economic Area (Western Civilization)

EENI African Business Portal.