The webinar discussed what kind of Actor will the EU be in development and cooperation with Africa, and what is differentiating EU from other foreign players in Africa such as US, China, Russia and others.

EMEA is a partner of the TRIGGER Project led by CEPS which kicked off in 2019. The panel discussed the concept of Actorness developed by the TRIGGER project (on Trends in Global Governance and Europe’s role) and presented  the preliminary findings of the research performed by EMEA under this project. AGENDA Moderator(s): Prof. Rym Ayadi, President, Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA), Professor at the Bayes Business School (Former CASS), City University of London Speaker (s): Andrea Renda, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy (GRID) at CEPS, Belgium Sara Ronco, Researcher, Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA), Spain Panellist(s):      Moubarack Lô, Director General of the Bureau of Economic Prospective, Senegal, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South, Member of the EMEA Advisory Board H. E. Harriet Sena Siaw-Boateng, Ambassador of Ghana to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and Head of Mission to the European Union H.E. Fathallah Sijilmassi, Former Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (Barcelona), Founder and CEO of Positive Agenda Advisory, member of the EMEA Advisory Board and member of the EMNES Advisory Committee Domenico Rosa, Head of the Unit INTPA/A/1 on the Strategic partnerships with Africa and OACPS at the Directorate General for International Partnerships (INTPA) of the European Commission The webinar was organised by EMEA in collaboration with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS, and took place on Thursday 15 July at 15:00 CET on Zoom.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8sHlT0Ril4