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Though it includes aspects we consider to be positive, this report fails to examine the real core of EU-Africa relations, omitting or shirking its key responsibilities and strategic objectives.
The most striking example is perhaps its silence on NATO/USA/EU initiatives in relation to Africa, such as the creation of specific military commands (USA/AFRICOM), the holding of military manoeuvres (NATO), or the growing military presence of the major EU powers (‘peace support mechanisms’, military missions).
The report also contains aspects that open the doors to intervention – disguised as ‘humanitarian’, ‘conflict management’ or ‘good governance’ – and does not object to the increasing subordination of development policy to ‘security’ strategies, favouring ‘development aid’ provided by soldiers or the use of its funds for purposes that have nothing to do with such aid, allocating it in accordance with the major powers’ strategic objectives, namely control of Africa’s huge natural resources, including oil.
Finally, ascribing value to the constraints it advocates for the ‘Economic Partnership Agreements’, the report reaffirms the ‘dogma’ of trade liberalisation as a basis for development.
In support of the EU/Africa Summit, we reject such policies."@en1
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