{"id":217348,"date":"2022-02-22T19:45:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/how-the-migration-and-mobility-pact-has-helped-to-reset-au-eu-relations\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T19:45:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:45:35","slug":"how-the-migration-and-mobility-pact-has-helped-to-reset-au-eu-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/how-the-migration-and-mobility-pact-has-helped-to-reset-au-eu-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"How the migration and mobility pact has helped to reset AU-EU relations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the recent 6th AU-EU summit<\/a>, the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) unveiled five partnerships highlighting their Joint Vision till 2030.<\/p>\n

The five partnerships are: green transition and energy access, digital transformation, sustainable growth and jobs, peace and governance and migration and mobility.<\/p>\n

The genesis of their partnership on migration and mobility goes back to the Joint-Valletta Action Plan that was signed in November 2015 in the wake of the refugee crisis<\/a>. That autumn hundreds of thousands of Syrian, Afghan and Eritrean asylum seekers crossed into Greece from Turkey, and into Italy from Libya. The EU called an emergency meeting with African countries to try and find a long lasting solution. <\/p>\n

The meeting was attended by countless heads of government, NGOs, international organisations, AU and EU officials. <\/p>\n

My colleague Eileen Lamptey and I, analysed<\/a> the content of the Joint Valletta Action Plan and evaluated its implementation until 2021. <\/p>\n

We found that the phrase that emerged from the meeting was \u201cshared responsibility\u201d. This highlighted the parties\u00b4 recognition of their interdependence. While each party held onto its interests (territorial integrity for the Europeans and economic development for the Africans), there was a new sense, especially on the part of the more powerful Europeans, that both parties needed each other\u2019s help and co-operation to advance these interests.<\/p>\n

This policy shift was evident in the five domains of action<\/a> that were agreed around migration. <\/p>\n

We found only a limited gap in policy implementation. The policies on the paper were put in place and their results so far have been mostly positive. We concluded that they constituted a break with the past and progress in the EU-AU migration dialogue.<\/p>\n

The implementation score card<\/h2>\n

The six domains of action around migration were:<\/p>\n