European Parliament, INTA Committee Report on EU - Africa Trade and Investment Relations, Rapporteur MEP Helmut Scholz
Wednesday, February 9th, 2022, 18.00 - 19.30 Brussels time
Interpretation into EN and FR
Zoom Link: : https://zoom.us/j/91043539087
Speakers:
Dr. Saker El Nour, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Scholarly Dialogue Program of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Otto-Suhr Institute of Political Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin: “The nexus of EU - Africa and intra-African trade relations and the need for agricultural policy transformations and the possibilities of a just transition in the agriculture sectors in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia.”
Eng Mansur Ahmed, Chairman of the Pan African Manufacturers Association (PAMA): “Trade and Africa’s Industrialization agenda: what role for the EU, what role for AfCFTA?”
Maha Ben Gadha: (economic programme manager RLF, Tunis) “How to achieve Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa?”
Invited for Comment:
(tbc) MEP Emmanuel Maurel, standing rapporteur for EU - Tunisia trade relations of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade
(tbc) MEP Kathleen van Brempt, standing rapporteur for EU - Maghreb trade relations of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade
Nele Eichhorn, DG TRADE, Head of Unit “Southern Neighbours, Middle East, Turkey, Russia and Central Asia”
Moderator: MEP Helmut Scholz, rapporteur of the report on EU - Africa trade and investment relations of the European Parliament
Co-host: Dr. Arif Ruezgar (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Brussels Office)
Helmut Scholz ist seit 2009 Mitglied des Europaparlaments.
Er ist Mitglied im Ausschuss für Internationalen Handel und stellvertretendes Mitglied im Ausschuss für Konstitutionelle Fragen. Er ist zudem Mitglied bzw. Stellvertreter unter anderm in den Delegationen für die Beziehungen zu den USA und zur Volksrepublik China.
