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  • ‘A successful EU Council Presidency – in spite of the pandemic’
    Tanja Gönner, Chair of the GIZ Management Board, looks back at Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Her conclusion? A lot was achieved in the face of the pandemic.
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  • Cucumbers wait for no one
    Every day counts when it’s harvest time. There’s now a quick and easy way to register seasonal workers at the Ostić farm in Serbia using an app.
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  • One team, more clout
    Born out of the coronavirus crisis, the Team Europe concept now serves as a blueprint for EU-wide development cooperation.
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  • A new narrative
    Aya Chebbi is the African Union’s first ever Special Envoy on Youth. A portrait.
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  • Equal partners
    The EU wants to strengthen its relationship with Africa. The old concepts – donors and recipients, knowledge-bearers and learners – are a thing of the past. Today it is all about a joint vision and new roles.
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  • Africa and Europe need each other
    Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships, wants to take relations with Africa to a new level.
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  • Europe and Africa: the future of the partnership
    One topic, two perspectives – in our new feature section, we ask experts to analyse a topic from their own personal perspective. To kick off, we are looking at the relationship between Africa and Europe.
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  • Education at the core of EU-Africa Partnership
    A guest column by Patrick Awuah, Founder and President of Ashesi University in Ghana
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  • A renewed EU-Africa partnership fit to the global context
    A guest column by Sandra Kramer, Director EU-AU relations, West and East Africa (DEVCO.D)
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