Portugal with an eye on Africa, starting with neighboring Morocco
It is already this week in Brussels and coinciding with a biannual French president of the European Union that the EU-Africa summit is held on Friday, an excellent opportunity for cooperation between two continents that are only 13 kilometers apart in the Strait of Gibraltar. Now, if geography brings European and African history together, as well as geography, the economy emerges as the main inspiration for current relationships. While Europe has the technology and financial resources that Africa lacks, it has both the natural and human resources that are scarce in the north of the Mediterranean. And when human resources speak in different ways, starting with young people who see the north as Eldorado and who are in need of labor in a continent in demographic crisis, but also because of the productive capacity and markets that the south has and that justify more investment; This is especially at a time when the West has become aware of the importance of not being too dependent on China, in these last decades, a kind of factory in the world.
Portugal, which in 207 hosted the third Europe-Africa in Lisbon, would have liked to have seen this now coincide with a semester of its president02021, the virtual meeting with India in Porto has compensated in a way for our diplomacy and we also serve the look for alternatives to such an extension relationship with China. Now, the priority for Portuguese leaders must be to score discreet points during the meeting in the Belgian capital, where, in addition to the EU countries and their members, 7 half-phases will be attended by the leaders of the African Union and the hundred members of the organization, with the exception of the coup groups in Mali, Guinea-Conakry and Burkina Faso.