“Europe in listening mode” Workshop I

A new benchmark for success: making trade and investment contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

The European Parliament`s Committee on International Trade (INTA) will prepare its first draft position for the European Parliament on the future trade relations between the EU and Africa. The report of the European Parliament, which together with the results of the EU-Africa Summit in February will define the cornerstones, will guide the development of trade and investment relations between the two continents in the coming years.

The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is organising together with MEP Helmut Scholz, Rapporteur for a report by the Committee on International Trade (INTA) on the trade and investment relations between the EU and Africa, a series of online workshops on trade and investment relations between the European Union and the African continent. The aim of this series is to bring reflections and ideas from African officials, parliamentarians, academics, civil society actors and trade unionists from Africa to the process of drafting and to be given appropriate space.

The focus of the debate will be an evaluation of the EU‘s region-based EPA approach and how it relates to the African approach of a Continental Free Trade Area, and what needs to be changed to make trade relations between both continents serve the common priority of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Workshop I: Daressalam/East Africa Community
Wednesday, January 26th, 6:00–7:30pm (CET)

Speakers
Hon. Dr. Peter Mutuku Mathuki, Secretary General of EAC
“A brief evaluation of the trade and investment relations between EAC and EU. What went well, what could be better? How does the EU-EAC exchange relate to the achievement of the AfCFTA?”

Dr. Isaac Shinyekwa, (Economic Policy Research Center, Makerere University)
“Ideas for improvements of exports from EAC member states to the African continent and to the European Union.”

Ms. Jane S. Nalunga, (Executive Director, Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) Uganda
“What evolution in trade and investment relations is needed to achieve the SDGs? How do these changes relate to the achievement of the AfCFTA?”

Comment
(tbc) MEP Massimiliano Salini, standing rapporteur for EU-EAC trade relations of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade

Moderator: MEP Helmut Scholz, rapporteur of the report on EU-Africa trade and investment relations of the European Parliament

Co-hosts: Bernd Schneider, Florian Horn, Dr. Arif Rüzgar

Dates of the following workshops
Workshop II: Dakar/West and Central Africa
Wednesday, February 2nd, 6:00–7:30pm (CET)
Workshop III: Johannesburg/Southern Africa (SADC/ESA)
Wednesday, February 9th, 6:00–7:30pm (CET)
Workshop IV: Tunis/North Africa
Wednesday, February 16th, 6:00–7:30pm (CET)

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