How did the consultations link up with the institutional negotiations?
EU and AU officials agreed to structure their initial negotiations along five priority themes for the EU-Africa dialogue. The consultation was likewise structured according to these themes. Issue papers were drafted by ECDPM on these themes and approved by both EU and AU officials to be used as a basis for the consultation. The issue papers provided background on each of these five themes and possible questions arising in that framework were listed. At a later stage, more in depth discussions on each of the five topics were formulated on the basis of the issues raised in the public debate and those emerging from the institutional negotiations. Comments and position papers were mostly structured along these five themes. See the links below for information on the five themes, as well as for the comments made and position papers sent on each theme.
