Meeting of the EU-ACP Follow-up Committee - June 2022

The ACP-EU Follow-up Committee is meeting in Lisbon (Portugal) on 23 and 24 June 2022.

Being the first in-person meeting since the irruption of COVID-19 pandemic, Delegates from Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific and EESC Members are gathering in the context of the pending signature of the Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS).

The programme of this important event for the EU-OACPS organised civil society is mainly dedicated to the role of civil society in the partnership, the joint cooperation as well as the role played by the paradigm of interculturality. A field visit is scheduled to the Portuguese High Commission for Migration, a public institution with the mission of collaborating on public, transversal and sectorial migration policies relevant for the integration of migrants and for managing and valuing of the diversity between cultures, ethnics and religions.