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From · resolution motion joint· 21 Oct 2025

RC-10-2025-0471

on renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit

To · adopted text· 23 Oct 2025

TA-10-2025-0253

Renewing the EU-Africa Partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit

AI:What changed, in short

The text now frames migration as a challenge requiring partnerships with commitments on border management, returns, and counterterrorism.28 Adds new paragraphs on religious persecution, Christians in the Sahel, and involving churches in EU programmes.45 Adds a call to combat female genital mutilation and drops a commitment on mobility and visa facilitation for students.910 Rewords the youth paragraph to support increased participation of European students in exchanges with African universities.7 Other changes are formal: decimal commas and paragraph renumbering.136

9 changes of substance · 2 formal · 0 of wording only

Written by AI from the two texts only · read the changes before relying on it · 4 Sept 2026 · Report a problem

+12 added · −4 removed · 6 changed paragraphs, packaging included.

Part 2 of 2: Paragraphs 61–70

29. Calls for joint progress on the African single electricity market, cross-border interconnections and sustainable urbanisation; calls for the EU to provide its fair share of climate finance for African climate adaptation and mitigation, supporting initiatives such as the Great Green Wall and NaturAfrica that combine environmental protection with jobs and rural development; recognises climate change as a shared challenge and an opportunity for Africa-EU cooperation; welcomes the Africa-Europe Green Energy Initiative to deliver 50 GW of renewable capacity and electricity access for 100 million people by 2030;

30. Calls for stronger AU-EU action and joint advocacy at Conference of the Parties meetings to secure fair climate finance, technology transfer and funding for the loss and damage fund; stresses that all major greenhouse gas emitters, including G20 members, must lead on implementing the Paris Agreement; welcomes Africa’s permanent G20 membership and supports greater African representation in global governance; proposes that the AU and the EU establish an annual high-level dialogue on climate and sustainability in order to monitor progress and align policies on energy, biodiversity and environmental protection;

Way forward

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32. Urges the Commission and the EEAS to establish annual high-level dialogues with the AU Commission and Regional Economic Communities in four priority areas: peace and security, trade and economic cooperation, migration and mobility, and sustainability and climate action, in order to evaluate partnership priorities, monitor implementation and feed into both the AU-EU summit process and the EU’s multiannual financial framework; proposes that AU-EU consultations be institutionalised at ministerial and senior official level each year, ensuring continuous coordination, accountability and adaptive policy design;

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34. Calls on its President to invite African heads of state to address Parliament on a more regular basis, ensuring balanced geographical representation and fostering deeper political dialogue between the two continents;

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35. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the President of the European Council, the President of the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Council, the African Union Commission, the Pan-African Parliament, the governments and parliaments of the EU Member States and the African Union member states, and to the Secretaries-General of the United Nations and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States.