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🚀yay, after months of research, interviews, data collection here our policy brief on the 🇦🇪UAE’s growing presence in Africa's energy and mineral sectors written with @CorradoCok. 👇key msg and ideas for Europe to manage risks and seize opportunities🧵 ecfr.eu/publication/be…

6/⚠️The real tests ahead • Embed Africa’s industrialisation into Italian value chains • Closer alignment with Global Gateway & European initiatives to boost European presence in Africa • Geopolitics: embed Italy in African hedging strategies via EU & trilateral coalitions

5/💰Italy has multilateralised the Plan, embedding a national strategy into global architectures + evolving blended finance ecosystems. Italian DFIs, export credit agencies, guarantees. European actors: EIB, EBRD. Multilaterals: AfDB, WB, UN. Bilateral: UAE, Saudi Arabia

🇮🇹🌍From Rome to Addis: two years of the #MatteiPlan. Today, PM Giorgia Meloni launches the second Italy–Africa Summit in Addis, the first on African soil. Tomorrow, she attends the AU Summit as special guest, an invitation with diplomatic weight. #ItalyAfrica @ECFRAfrica

🌍 L’Angola e gli UAE mostrano come l’Africa stia diversificando i propri partner. L'UE deve superare divisioni interne, ridurre la dipendenza dagli USA e dialogare con nuovi attori per restare centrale nella regione ✍️ @madprocopio x @ECFRAfrica buff.ly/7edQ3aS

‼️📢 New @ecfr brief Our programme director, Alex Vines wrote a piece on #Angola, host of the current AU-EU Summit. The country is pursuing a strategy of purposeful non-alignment and is becoming an increasingly important “middle power” in the world. 📑🌍👇 buff.ly/LDDO77p

#Angola is hosting the AU-EU Summit this week. Read about the country’s effort to diversify its partnerships and position itself as a regional logistics, energy and agribusiness hub and what that means for #Europe.‼️👇 @ecfr @madprocopio buff.ly/7edQ3aS

Il governo prova a "europeizzare" il Piano Mattei con 11 intese strategiche fra Italia e #Ue oggi al vertice #Africa a Roma. Sullo sfondo c'è sempre di più il #Golfo. L'anticipazione del @sole24ore sull'incontro di oggi con @vonderleyen e istituzioni del Continente

The original article is on the @ecfr @ECFRAfrica website: ecfr.eu/publication/di…

🥳The policy brief I recently co-authored with @CorradoCok "Diversification nations: The Gulf way to engage with Africa" is now available in 7 languages thanks to @WorldnNewWorld! 🌍 English, Korean, Spanish, German, Arabic, French, Russian 🔗 Read here: worldnewworld.com/page/content.p…

@CNRS @CAK_UMR @IDDRI_ThinkTank @pwatkinson ♻️Stratégies climatiques des monarchies du Golfe en Afrique : sécurisation des ressources 📌Eleonora Ardemagni, cherch asso @ispionline 📌@MatthieuBrun3, dir sci @FondationFARM 📌@madprocopio, cherch @ecfr 📌Sami Ramdani, cherch IRIS ️🎙️Martin Collet, ass rech IRIS

Si è concluso il primo vertice UE-Sudafrica dopo sette anni. Pretoria rimane fedele ad una politica di ambiguità, mentre l'UE ha colto l'occasione per promuovere le sue ambizioni attraverso un nuovo tipo di partenariato, scrive @madprocopio 👇 buff.ly/SpdTKgj

Kudos to @hmryder, CEO of @DevReimagined for an amazing initiative connecting China and Africa through one of the greatest forms of cultural expression: fabrics and fashion. Love to see Italian @vogue_italia report on this. vogue.it/article/shangh…

The growing presence of Gulf states in #Africa’s energy transition means Europeans can help improve access to clean energy across the continent. Read @madprocopio & @CorradoCok's policy brief @ECFRAfrica buff.ly/0wnMmnM

@formichenews dedica un numero all’#Africa🌍Felice di aver contribuito con un pezzo sui #mineralicritici: strategie internazionali, sfide per l'Europa, e il ruolo chiave degli attori africani. Un tema cruciale per il futuro globale! Tanti altri articoli! shorturl.at/NnkSO

@currentanalyst @ecfr @ECFRAfrica @ECFRRoma @currentanalyst yes they are critical! We focused primarily on energy relations, as they became a key force reshaping foreign policy dynamics in recent years. However, agriculture remains central to Gulf-Africa relations, playing a crucial role alongside this shifting landscape.

💡29 marzo, Milano e online - parlerò a Dialoghi sull'Africa organizzato da @africarivista del nuovo policy brief scritto con @CorradoCok per @ECFR su Golfo-Africa! Se interessati al ruolo dell'Africa nell'attuale scacchiere internazionale non perdetelo. shorturl.at/Vmjs2👇

Thanks @MYBISA for including our newly launched Policy Brief in your 'Take Five'. "Diversification nations: The Gulf way to engage with Africa" with @CorradoCok @ECFRAfrica ecfr.eu/publication/di…

📢 Come join us on 31 March if you are interested in how Gulf-Africa relations are evolving and the impact on Europe. Great panel with @NawafAlThani @HubertKinkoh @jbdacey. We will also discuss our newly published policy Brief "Diversification Nations" 👉 shorturl.at/QjpzM