Africa, Europe cosy up on migration, progress - by Axel Bugge
At an African Union (AU) summit in Ghana, where leaders debated integration similar to that achieved by the EU, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called on Europe and Africa to develop partnerships in energy and climate change. Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, whose country took over the six-month rotating presidency of the EU on Sunday, said it was “incomprehensible” that Africa and Europe had not had a permanent, institutional dialogue. “This hurts Europeans and Africans,” Socrates told AU leaders at their summit — the first to invite the leader of the rotating EU presidency state to speak.
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