EU’s Juncker wants ‘new alliance’ with Africa 1 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseEuropean Commission head Jean Claude Juncker on Wednesday called for a “new alliance” with Africa that would create millions of jobs and include a free trade deal. “We should move the many trade agreements between Africa and the European Union towards a continent-to-continent free trade agreement,” Juncker told the European Parliament during his annual State of the Union speech. He said that the EU’s relations with Africa must no longer be seen “from the sole perspective of development aid”. “Africa does not need charity, it needs a balanced partnership and Europe needs this partnership just as much,” he said to MEPs.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 12, 2018 08:26 UTC