Programme

Welcome address by Dimitris DIMITRIADIS, President of the EESC External Relations Section

Introduction by Carlos TRINDADE, Chair of the EU-ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific states) Follow-up Committee

  • Debriefing on the 29th OACPS-EU Economic and Social Stakeholder Consultations held in December 2021
  • EU-CARIFORUM: State of play by EESC Member Thomas WAGNSONNER, member of EU‑CARIFORUM Joint Consultative Committee (JCC)
  • Update on the Exploratory Mission to Ivory Coast
  • Exchange of views

Outcome of the 6th European Union-African Union Summit (17-18 February 2022 in Brussels)

  • Presentation by the EU Presidency of the Council of the EU (tbc)
  • Exchange of views

State of play of the new Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the OACPS

  • Presentation by Domenico ROSA, Head of Unit, Strategic Partnerships with Africa & with the ACP, Directorate-General for International Partnerships (INTPA), European Commission
  • Exchange of views

In camera

Preparation for the EU-ACP Follow-up Committee meeting in Lisbon, 23 and 24 June 2022

  • Exchange of views

EU Strategy for cooperation for the Indo-Pacific's implications for the ACP and the civil society

  • Presentation by Anne McNAUGHTON, Director of the Australian National University Centre for European Studies
  • Presentation by Dan LUI, Expert
  • Exchange of views

Any other business

Meeting of the Task Force on the Indo-Pacific region

  • With the participation of Peter Clever (Group I), Carlos Trindade (Group II) and Klaas Johan Osinga (Group III)