“Europe in listening mode” Workshop III
Channel: RosaluxEuropa
Date: 2022-02-15

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 III: Johannesburg/Southern Africa (SADC/ESA)
Wednesday, February 9th, 6:00–7:30pm (CET)

Speakers
Maha Ben Gadha (tbc), Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Tunis
Dr. Saker El Nour, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Scholarly Dialogue Program of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Otto-Suhr Institute of Political Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin
Eng Mansur Ahmed, Chairman of the Pan African Manufacturers Association (PAMA)

Comments
MEP Emmanuel Maurel
MEP Kathleen van Brempt
NELE EICHHORN, DG Trade, European Commission

Moderator
MEP Helmut Scholz

Co-Hosts
Bernd Schneider, Florian Horn, Dr. Arif Rüzgar 


Dates of the following workshop
Workshop IV: Tunis/North Africa
Wednesday, February 16th, 6:00–7:30pm (CET)