African-European Relations (Vol 15, 2018)
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The year saw a continuation of the strong contrast between the eu’s discourse of emphasising equal partnership with Africa, and its practice of launching unilateral initiatives towards Africa. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker devoted a substantial part of his annual State of the Union address on 12 September to “Europe’s twin continent”, asserting that “Africa does not need charity, it needs true and fair partnerships. And Europe needs this partnership just as much”. In the subsequent puzzling sentences, Juncker reported that he had consulted his “African friends”, in particular au chair Paul Kagame, and that they had all agreed that “donor-recipient relations are a thing of the past” and that “reciprocal commitments are the way forward”.
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African-European Relations (Vol 15, 2018)
in Africa Yearbook OnlineSearch for other papers by Christine Hackenesch in
Current site
Google Scholar
Search for other papers by Niels Keijzer in
Current site
Google Scholar
(6,252 words)