EU external relations with Africa
EU external relations with Africa

Summary/Abstract: Europe and Africa have historically strong relations, covering peace and security, democracy, human rights, development, sustainable economic growth and trade. The two parties have made several agreements and the two main agreements that governs the European Union and Africa relations are Cotonou Partnership Agreement and the 2007 Joint Africa-EU Strategy. Both of those include political, economic and development dimensions. Although agreements about equality have been made, there is still some indications that European Union reserves the donor part of the relationships and African Union is left behind as a recipient. This paper seeks to understand the reasons behind their relationships and wishes to find out, are the EU and AU now considered equal partners.

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