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EU-Africa: Brussels Summit Indefinetly Postponed

(20/87, 29.SEP - Brussels, Lisbon) Confirming previous predictions of the impossibility of holding the European Union-Africa Summit in OCT-NOV., mainly due to travel restrictions and others related to the Covid-19 pandemic (AM 1248), and of signing of the new EU-Africa framework cooperation agreement (“Alliance”) already during the Portuguese Presidency of the EU, in the first half of 2021 (AM 1166), diplomatic sources confirm the decision to postpone the event. READ MORE