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On 14th October 2024, the AU-EU Youth Lab programme officially launched in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, marking a pivotal milestone in empowering African youth and fostering their active participation in decision-making processes. The Kick-off ceremony gathered key partners from the AU-EU Youth Voices Lab and AU-EU Youth Action Lab, alongside members of the Youth Advisory Board (YAB), the EU-Ethiopia Youth Sounding Board, and youth representatives from across Africa. High-level dialogues with decision-makers, including H.E. Jutta Urpilainen, EU Commissioner for International Partnerships, and H.E. Javier Niño Pérez, EU Ambassador to the African Union, showcased the Lab’s transformative potential for youth engagement on the continent. The complete video of the ceremony is accessible online, off...

October 28, 2022, Brussels - The Africa-Europe Foundation (AEF) has launched its annual in-depth assessment of the state of relations between our two neighbouring continents. The Report’s launch comes eight months after February’s long-awaited summit between the African Union and European Union leaders, closely followed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one week later. The report has been backed by the AEF’s High-Level Group of personalities (HLG) who met together yesterday in Brussels to assess the state of Africa-Europe relations and progress since February’s Summit. The Report evidences a deterioration in relations stemming from fault lines that have emerged since 2020; among them, the inequitable responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and the failure to deliver on climate finance, which h...

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AU-EU Youth Voices Lab – Power of the Collective. Empowering Youth Across Africa and Europe

The Africa-Europe Foundation launches its 2022 High-Level Group of Personalities’ annual report assessing the state of play of the commitments of the Africa-Europe partnership