The Pan-African Parliament: getting ready for the 2017 AU-EU Summit

in 2017, nearly three years had passed since the adoption of a revised protocol that wwould grant the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) legislative powers and considerably strengthen the institution within the overall African governance system. While very few countries had ratified the protocol so far, the acceleration of its ratification procedures was a priority for the recently elected PAP president.

The European Parliament and the PAP enjoy a long-standing partnership and both of them have an important role to play in monitoring the Joint Africa EU Strategy (JAES) and its roadmap for 2014-2017. The fifth EU-Africa Summit, which was to be held in Côte d’Ivoire in November 2017, would assess the implementation of the road map and identify new priorities for the future.

Thematic priorities for the upcoming summit included youth, peace and security and migration, which were now at the heart of the relationship between the two continents.