How the EU-AU Summit failed Africa again

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Haastrup, T

Before the highly anticipated 6th Summit between the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) concluded on 18 February, the two sides had one common goal: to press the reset button on the European Union’s relations with Africa after a few years dominated by mistrust, a mismatch of expectations, and lots of anxiety. The EU is interested in rekindling the relationship to respond to new actors like Russia and China on the continent. In Africa, decisionmakers had grown frustrated with the EU and were ready to change the status quo.