EU-Africa report webinars: Part II - West Africa (2)

European Parliament, INTA Committee Report on EU - Africa Trade and Investment Relations, Rapporteur MEP Helmut Scholz

EU - Africa report webinars: Part II: West Africa

Wednesday, February 9th, 2022, 18.00 - 19.30 Brussels time

Interpretation into EN and FR

Zoom Link: : https://zoom.us/j/91043539087[1]

 

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)

 

 

Links:

1. https://zoom.us/j/91043539087