Changing perspectives on EU-Africa relations

Abstract

The European Union (EU) has, since the early 2000s, repeatedly expressed intentions to rekindle its relations with Africa, with a view to moving away from donor-recipient dynamics towards a partnership of equals. In fact, a great majority of existing academic analyses on EU-Africa relations have documented and theorised how, with some exceptions, the EU has managed to impose its preferences on African states, reflecting longstanding power asymmetries but also revealing the limits of Eurocentrism. This panel seeks to investigate recent trends in EU-Africa relations, pointing to the fact that the EU should make grounded efforts to treat Africa as a true partner, not an afterthought, not least because African leaders have increasingly sought to diversify their external partnerships beyond traditional Western powers.

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