
Analysis
How will the EU's carbon border tax affect Africa?
Ahead of the COP28 Summit, African leaders challenge CBAM, the EU carbon border tax, which comes into effect in early 2024.
Friday
8th Dec 2023
Ahead of the COP28 Summit, African leaders challenge CBAM, the EU carbon border tax, which comes into effect in early 2024.
EU legislators are just weeks away from enabling racial profiling and unlawful de facto detention across Europe's external-border member states.
After the French troop withdrawal, European partners can and should still play a supporting role in Niger. But it's crucial that this role is characterised by humility and inclusivity.
The Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements is a platform of European and African-based organizations that raises awareness about the impacts of the EU-Africa fisheries arrangements on African artisanal fishing communities.
The Brussels International Center (BIC) is an independent, non-profit, think-and-do tank based in the capital of Europe that is committed to developing solutions to address the cyclical drivers of insecurity, economic fragility, and conflict in the Middle East and Africa.
As war rages in and above Gaza, many Palestinians have found themselves trapped in Egypt, awaiting to be finally able to cross the Rafah crossing to be reunited with their families.
Almost €14bn of European official development assistance ends up in a handful of rich member states — instead of going towards low-income nations in need around the globe, a new report uncovers.
Tunisia's public services — starting with healthcare — are imploding due to a lack of financing. On Facebook groups of Tunisians abroad or Europeans living in Tunisia, requests for medicines are increasingly common.
Bordering Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Eritrea and Egypt, Sudan is in the immediate vicinity of the European neighbourhood and the ongoing war in Africa's third-largest country, could have worse repercussions than the Libyan collapse for the EU.
The EU may extend its naval military operation Irini off Libya to include Tunisia, as a further means to prevent people from fleeing on boats towards Italy.
In its desperate effort to curb migration, the EU has inadvertently bolstered jihadist groups in the Sahel, and now it may be too late. The vast majority of migrants embarking on the Mediterranean have overcome a far more dangerous journey.
Migration, terrorism and energy — three 'crisis' topics — have preoccupied European policy and their societies' view of their neighbourhood in northern Africa for a long time.
The European Parliament is lifting objections to press ahead on EU-wide asylum reforms with the council, representing member states.
The European Commission is largely silent on the latest snub from Tunisia's president Kais Saied over a stalled July agreement to curb migrant departures.
EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis popped a bottle of champagne in early June 2023. After the failed ratification of an Economic Partnership Agreement with the East African Community in 2016, he finally could declare success. However, there's little to celebrate.
When the rescuers arrived, they found a sea of corpses. The pictures of the coffins — many white and tiny — lined up in Lampedusa airport shocked the world and shook Europe's conscience.
Russia's use of diamonds in corruption schemes in Europe and Africa gives upcoming G7 ban a strategic value beyond any moral or financial one, Ukraine says.
Just two years on, the sheen has slowly begun to dull on the Just Energy Transition Partnerships — which have thus far been signed by the governments of South Africa, Indonesia, Vietnam and, most recently, Senegal.
The EU's Common Fisheries Policy has all the provisions needed for Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements to successfully work as a "'race to the top' rather than to the bottom, argues former MEP Isabella Lövin.
The European Commission won't rule out discussing a naval blockade to stop migrants and refugees from fleeing North African countries like Tunisia.
Questions are mounting on how the EU intends to safeguard rights in a migrant busting agreement signed over the summer with Tunisia's autocrat government.
Hungary is now threatening to halt Nato's war-time expansion over a 10-minute Swedish video-clip it doesn't like.
With an Icelandic rat-catcher in Kherson, Russia is scraping the barrel for fake election monitors, as the US threatens sanctions against those involved.
The European Commission has evoked sea rescues carried out by the Tunisian coast guard as evidence that a recent controversial deal with Tunis is helping migrants and others fleeing the country.
Hans Leijtens, the head of the EU's border agency Frontex, is reluctant to launch operations in Africa, as discussions continue to secure agreements with Senegal and Mauritania.
The Nairobi summit ultimately marked both the first unified voice of the continent in the fight against climate change, and the first time such an ambitious vision of Africa's clean energy prospects has been tabled at such a high-level forum.
Kenyan president William Ruto, representing African leaders, called for new global carbon taxes and reforms to the financial system to help fund climate action on the continent.
Rapid action is needed to improve access to capital and lower financing costs to unlock "a wave" of clean-energy spending in Africa, according to a new report.
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen pledged support for African financial reform bid at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi — but did not go into details, and left before she was scheduled to discuss the topic further.
Kenyan president William Ruto launched the inaugural Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi and showcased the continent's potential as a clean energy powerhouse. Africa contains 60 percent of the world's solar potential, massive geothermal capacity and CO2-absorbing tropical forests.
In her article, Laetitia Bader expresses doubts about the Ethiopian government's ability to deliver justice. We would like to provide insight into Ethiopia's significant efforts in implementing transitional justice policies, fostering healing, and building a more inclusive and just society.
The apparent state murder of Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prighozin shows Russia is a mafia regime, Germany and other EU countries have said.
The EU's expansive cooperation with Niger to stem migration may be in the balance following the 26 July military coup that ousted president Mohamed Bazoum.
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are meeting in Johannesburg to assess the group's expansion — and boost their currencies against the West. Russian president Vladimir Putin is the only leader not expected to attend in person.
Tunisia possesses both the necessary ingredients and the capacity to invigorate its economy to become a 'Mediterranean tiger'. Yet, this potential has remained largely untapped since the dawn of its 2011 uprising.