🚀yay, after months of research, interviews, data collection here our policy brief on the 🇦🇪UAE’s growing presence in Africa's energy and mineral sectors written with @CorradoCok.
👇key msg and ideas for Europe to manage risks and seize opportunities🧵 https://t.co/1yStEmd7qE
6/⚠️The real tests ahead • Embed Africa’s industrialisation into Italian value chains • Closer alignment with Global Gateway & European initiatives to boost European presence in Africa • Geopolitics: embed Italy in African hedging strategies via EU & trilateral coalitions
🇮🇹🌍From Rome to Addis: two years of the #MatteiPlan. Today, PM Giorgia Meloni launches the second Italy–Africa Summit in Addis, the first on African soil. Tomorrow, she attends the AU Summit as special guest, an invitation with diplomatic weight. #ItalyAfrica@ECFRAfrica
5/💰Italy has multilateralised the Plan, embedding a national strategy into global architectures + evolving blended finance ecosystems. Italian DFIs, export credit agencies, guarantees. European actors: EIB, EBRD. Multilaterals: AfDB, WB, UN. Bilateral: UAE, Saudi Arabia
🌍 L’Angola e gli UAE mostrano come l’Africa stia diversificando i propri partner. L'UE deve superare divisioni interne, ridurre la dipendenza dagli USA e dialogare con nuovi attori per restare centrale nella regione
✍️ @madprocopio x @ECFRAfrica
https://t.co/Zq51VMNFy2
‼️📢 New @ecfr brief
Our programme director, Alex Vines wrote a piece on #Angola, host of the current AU-EU Summit. The country is pursuing a strategy of purposeful non-alignment and is becoming an increasingly important “middle power” in the world.
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https://t.co/qeod7tVBbZ
#Angola is hosting the AU-EU Summit this week. Read about the country’s effort to diversify its partnerships and position itself as a regional logistics, energy and agribusiness hub and what that means for #Europe.‼️👇 @ecfr@madprocopio
https://t.co/hlSTIHlrB2
Il governo prova a "europeizzare" il Piano Mattei con 11 intese strategiche fra Italia e #Ue oggi al vertice #Africa a Roma. Sullo sfondo c'è sempre di più il #Golfo. L'anticipazione del @sole24ore sull'incontro di oggi con @vonderleyen e istituzioni del Continente
🥳The policy brief I recently co-authored with @CorradoCok "Diversification nations: The Gulf way to engage with Africa" is now available in 7 languages thanks to @WorldnNewWorld!
🌍 English, Korean, Spanish, German, Arabic, French, Russian
🔗 Read here: https://t.co/uNaFLF6TvG
Si è concluso il primo vertice UE-Sudafrica dopo sette anni. Pretoria rimane fedele ad una politica di ambiguità, mentre l'UE ha colto l'occasione per promuovere le sue ambizioni attraverso un nuovo tipo di partenariato, scrive @madprocopio 👇
https://t.co/mhXpUh7YSF
Kudos to @hmryder, CEO of @DevReimagined for an amazing initiative connecting China and Africa through one of the greatest forms of cultural expression: fabrics and fashion. Love to see Italian @vogue_italia report on this. https://t.co/KNdpmHmqHv
The growing presence of Gulf states in #Africa’s energy transition means Europeans can help improve access to clean energy across the continent. Read @madprocopio & @CorradoCok's policy brief @ECFRAfrica https://t.co/IpTsHeexwa
@formichenews dedica un numero all’#Africa🌍Felice di aver contribuito con un pezzo sui #mineralicritici: strategie internazionali, sfide per l'Europa, e il ruolo chiave degli attori africani. Un tema cruciale per il futuro globale! Tanti altri articoli! https://t.co/avMmWhAnLt
@currentanalyst@ecfr@ECFRAfrica@ECFRRoma@currentanalyst yes they are critical! We focused primarily on energy relations, as they became a key force reshaping foreign policy dynamics in recent years. However, agriculture remains central to Gulf-Africa relations, playing a crucial role alongside this shifting landscape.
💡29 marzo, Milano e online - parlerò a Dialoghi sull'Africa organizzato da @africarivista del nuovo policy brief scritto con @CorradoCok per @ECFR su Golfo-Africa! Se interessati al ruolo dell'Africa nell'attuale scacchiere internazionale non perdetelo. https://t.co/4PXIeH6Kx4👇
Thanks @MYBISA for including our newly launched Policy Brief in your 'Take Five'.
"Diversification nations: The Gulf way to engage with Africa" with @CorradoCok@ECFRAfrica
https://t.co/ZOkXXcAf6q
📢 Come join us on 31 March if you are interested in how Gulf-Africa relations are evolving and the impact on Europe. Great panel with @NawafAlThani@HubertKinkoh@jbdacey. We will also discuss our newly published policy Brief "Diversification Nations" 👉 https://t.co/K6YPgVbgFo
EVENT ALERT
📆 31 March, 12-1pm CET
With @NawafAlThani, @HubertKinkoh, @madprocopio, & @jbdacey, we will discuss whether Africa-Europe-Gulf relations could offer a more resilient model of cooperation in today’s uncertain geopolitical landscape. Register 👇https://t.co/suon472PGp