Eritrea – EU Ties of Cooperation: Past Trajectory and Future Prospects

This brief article that attempts to examine Eritrea-EU ties in a broad-brush manner is occurring at a propitious time. Indeed, it is just over thirty years now since Eritrea and the European Union formally launched enduring development ties within the EU-ACP general framework of multilateral cooperation. The EU, whether as a collective political entity or in terms of its individual member States, was largely absent, except for civil society Support groups and some NGOs, from the scene prior to that period; i.e. during Eritrea’s thirty-year long epic struggle for national independence and human dignity.

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