🎙️ The Lobito Corridor is sold as the flagship of Western efforts to compete with China in Africa, but the reality is smaller, stranger and far more revealing. Watch 👉 youtu.be/rDuAV_VD0pM Listen 👉 pod.link/728393144

📸 This week, Alexei Jones and Andrew Sherriff were invited to the European Council to present ECDPM's reflections on the future of development cooperation.

🔔 We're launching the AfRI Practice Hub, a new resource for African regional integration. At its centre is an interactive map that combines corridor data, organisational membership and mineral value chains in one place for the first time. Explore 👉 afripracticehub.org

📝 Cold storage is being rolled out along East Africa’s Northern Corridor, but many of these investments risk becoming expensive, underused assets. Read the paper 👉 bit.ly/4y1N1ls

📣 EU and NATO engagement in the Indo-Pacific is more fragmented than strategic. Both are moving in parallel, often towards partnerships with the same regional actors, without a clear division of labour. Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4wrO0dn

📝 As Global Gateway puts more emphasis on geostrategic investment, member states are under pressure to better coordinate their own actors. Our new paper looks at how “Team National” mechanisms are being set up in practice, and what early experience tells us about what works. Read 👉 bit.ly/4fdWpeq

[Brief] #NATO & #EUDefence: At the #Ankara summit: Can #NATO and the #EU finally coordinate on the Indo-Pacific? By Sara Gianesello & Giacomo Arosio | @ecdpm.org www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...

🎬 'It is existential, including for our own interests, to continue investing and engaging with partners on a long term basis, and not just seek immediate geopolitical or economic gains.' Our MFF dossier 👉 bit.ly/4eR2nRa Full panel 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2NF... @dochasnetwork.bsky.social

🎙️ The steel sector accounts for 7% of global emissions, and India's steel sector is both particularly polluting and expanding fast - making its decarbonisation essential for global climate goals. How can the EU go beyond CBAM to partner with India on clean steel? Watch or listen 👉 bit.ly/4xKHRdJ

📣 Over 620 million young Africans are expected to enter the labour force by 2050. Supporting young businesses will therefore be central to job creation, economic transformation and more sustainable growth across the continent. Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4eI9efC

[Podcast] #Climate & #EUIndustry - Beyond CBAM: How #Europe and India can clean up steel, by @poorvak.bsky.social & @jonathan-hunter.bsky.social | @ecdpm.org www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/podcast/beyo...

🔵 If the rules-based order is openly crumbling, what actually comes next and who gets to shape it? The first panel of our anniversary event explored options for the EU, middle powers and partners in the Global South. Watch the recording 👉 youtube.com/live/h2F5Y0q...

Say it like you mean it. Looking back at @ecdpm.org 40th anniversary conference, I went hunting for new vocabulary in international cooperation. What I found is that something has changed, but it isn't the words. New piece on InterComms. 👉 intercomms.substack.com/p/when-words...

📣 Who will control the digital infrastructure driving global climate action - democratic governments or a handful of tech monopolies? Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/44g1w7D

📣 The international consensus is that private capital must finance Ukraine’s reconstruction. But analysis reveals public finance has substituted for private capital rather than crowding it in. Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4ab3CJA

📝 The multi‑billion‑euro scramble around the Lobito Corridor is often framed in Brussels as a race with China for critical minerals. But this overlooks what is at stake for people living and farming along it. Read the full paper 👉 bit.ly/3QcyOkW

🔵 Thank you for joining us for our 40th anniversary event! With 200+ participants for 2 fantastic panels, we bought policymakers, experts and friends together to discuss a new era of European partnerships. 40 years of making international partnerships work 👉 bit.ly/4tTs0aI

[Brief] #EUDefence: Security beyond deterrence: Connecting #EU defence and peace, by Sophie Desmidt & Sara Gianesello | @ecdpm.org www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...

📣 The EU is debating defence spending and military capabilities, but a credible European security framework cannot rely on kinetic deterrence alone. Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4vH6INz

📣 In line with France's G7 presidency focus on 'economic security,' the debate on the Global Europe Instrument is increasingly framed as 'Europe finances, China builds'. But this is more caricature than fact. Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4eBUdgC

📝 East Africa has a distinct opportunity to change the economics of fertilisers. Read the policy brief 👉 bit.ly/4xfoKYS

First photos from our anniversary event 📸

📆 Trade, technology and industrial policy now sit at the centre of international partnerships. Our second panel will explore the practical steps needed to strengthen trade and investment partnerships across the world. Information and programme 👉 bit.ly/4x48EkL

📢 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 | We are hiring a research assistant to support our work on energy, industrialisation and finance! Apply here 👉 bit.ly/3POire8

🔵 What comes after multilateralism as we know it? The first panel at our anniversary event explores how the EU, middle powers and partners in the Global South can navigate a multipolar world together. Info and programme 👉 bit.ly/4x48EkL

[Commentary] #Climate: The long road to a just transition in the #EU’s Southern neighbourhood, by Hanne Louise Knaepen | @ecdpm.org www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...

📢 We are hiring a research assistant to support our work on energy, industrialisation and finance! Apply here 👉 bit.ly/3POire8

📝 Attention on African infrastructure corridors gravitates towards mineral extraction or a narrow set of export crops. We argue the real opportunity lies in linking green industrialisation with food security and climate resilience. Our paper with African Union Development Agency 👉 bit.ly/49lKYhK

[email protected] is turning 40! Much looking forward to join and discuss what lies ahead for multilateral cooperation in a power political world. The EU is under pressure like never before - but we are not alone. Need to invest in new types of partnerships, with new thinking and new language too.

[Commentary] #EUDefence: A new #European security strategy: what for? The strategy risks becoming yet another document in an already crowded field. By Pauline Veron | @ecdpm.org www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...

🎉 On 11 June, ECDPM marks its 40th anniversary with a high-level conference in Brussels on the future of international cooperation in a challenging global landscape. Information and programme 👉 bit.ly/4x48EkL

🔵 Just as global crises demand we work together, the model of development cooperation is breaking down. We interviewed to the people who shaped and challenged this model: they describe a system losing its purpose without a clear path to what should come next. Read their comments 👉 bit.ly/3RRrnjn

📣 In the next MFF, migration‑related spending could be scattered across many instruments, making it difficult to know how much, and in what ways, the EU is spending. Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4fMkWba

📢 We are hiring a research assistant to support our work on energy, industrialisation and finance! The role assists research and policy engagement on the economics of green industrialisation in developing countries, with a particular focus on EU partnerships. Apply here 👉 bit.ly/3POire8

🔵 Once seen as an agenda pushed onto Africa from outside, green policies are now clearly essential for African economies themselves - from cutting emissions to making borders and transport chains more resilient.

🔔 The first papers from our project to scale food and climate investments along key African corridors with AUDA-NEPAD are out now! Find them 👉 bit.ly/4rDs38T

📣 A key part of early warning systems, agriculture, water and land management, satellite data has never been more accessible, but many international cooperation programmes fail after the pilot phase. Why? Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4dPP96G

🔵 Africa and Europe do not just share a past, but a future. In our 40th anniversary interviews, João Gomes Cravinho describes the turbulent geopolitical landscape facing both neighbours, and the urgency of cooperation to deliver for their citizens. 👉 bit.ly/4tTs0aI

📣 When the African Union is judged mainly by its high‑profile setbacks, it’s easy to miss how much is changing beneath the surface amidst Africa's rising prominence on the world stage. Ueli Staeger reports on 10 years of change. Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4uzdLaW

📣 Testing the 'worst-case scenario' for EU agricultural dumping in West Africa reveals zero negative structural impacts on local food systems. Read the commentary by Koen Dekeyser 👉 bit.ly/4v50xCR

#UkraineWar: #Ukraine and the #EU: it is more than just money, by @amandinesabourin.bsky.social | @ecdpm.org www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...

📸 Our director @sanbilal.bsky.social is in Tallinn to speak at the Africa Business Forum 2026 Increased cooperation with the Baltics, Central-East and Eastern Europe is a natural next step for Africa-Europe partnership.

📆 Join our panel at the European Sustainable Energy Week to discuss how Europe's energy security depends on Africa's green industrialisation, organised with the Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP) For registration and info 👉 bit.ly/4tW5RaC

🔵 Digital now cuts across everything in development work. Whether we look at climate, social protection, health, education or governance, the infrastructures, data and platforms behind them are increasingly digital.

📸 How is 'strategic procurement' under the Global Gateway - that EU-funded contracts should also advance EU interests and partnerships - playing out in practice? We convened financiers from the EIB and EBRD, European companies and member state representatives to discuss.

📣 The Ukraine Facility is doing what it was designed to do: early, strict conditionality has helped push through some initial reforms. But the hard part is only starting - judicial independence, anti‑corruption, decentralisation. Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/4tOcDz0

How can global health architecture reform amidst shrinking budgets? Post-pandemic cooperation is shifting from donor models to health sovereignty We hosted an ETTG webinar to unpack this with experts from ODI Global, @iaionline.bsky.social and @ecdpm.org Stay tuned for our upcoming outputs ettg.eu

📖 What happens when Europe's domestic migration pressures collide with its international development goals? For Germany, it's a mix unlikely to satisfy anyone. Read the full comparative study 👉 bit.ly/4ttEbth [pdf]

🔵 Geopolitical competition means increased pressure to align with a specific power, particularly when funding is at stake. But credibility rests on safeguarding independence. Watch the clip 👉 youtube.com/shorts/rGyrc...

📝 Europe brings complexity while competitors bring bundled digital offers. How can European export finance keep up with the pace and politics of the global digital transformation? Read the full analysis and recommendations 👉 bit.ly/42tpSKv