What Europe is REALLY doing in Africa
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Into Europe: Africa is becoming a focus point for great powers. While there has been much focus on the EU's new initiative, the global gateway, raw materials and security questions drive the EU's actions in the contient.
So what is the European Union really doing in Africa?
0:00 Introduction
0:49 1- The relative decline of the EU's ties with Africa
2:32 Sponsored Segment
3:34 2- The EU's priorities in Africa
6:32 3- The EU in competition in Africa
9:05 4- The EU's plan in Africa: Global Gateway
10:38 5- The EU's main challenges in Africa
Main sources:
Interview with Svenja Weiss
Written interview with Gwamaka Kifukwe
Articles of the video
European Union Trust Fund for Africa Report 2020
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First of all i'd ask what are africans doing all over europe? I can barely understand they flooding France and Belgium.. but what are they doing in Italy, germany. Poland, Sweden, Greece, east europe, south europe and literally everywhere??
2022*
Your video is propaganda
@@ivangamer8022Yes we AFRIKANS are everywhere Coz we are the choosen ones...
Apart from iceland where we have only 3 Afrikans.....In India we are called Jarawa and sentanalies,In Australia we are Aborigins,
we are In Jaimica,Haiti Turkey,Philipines Japan. Barbados,colombia,Cuba,Mexico,Iraq,Iran,
Oman,Qatar Yemen,Brasil,Chile,America.
This is why....in our prophecy when the blood of the people of the sun will call ...the wrath of seven suns.....will come.
So mind your own business leave AFRIKANS out of your garlic stinking mouth.
@Daniel DANNY Mower Moweskey #backroomdoor
China is winning in Africa because it's providing what Africa needs the most of: infrastructure. Railways, roads, ports: these are the backbone of a functioning economy. If Europe wants to compete, it should offer contracts for these types of developments, and if it can't compete on cost, then it should complement its offer with technology and skill transfers. If Africa has the choice between cheap infrastructure built by the Chinese, or more expensive infrastructure that it has in large part built itself with European assistance and machinery, a significant fraction will choose the latter.
You are underestimating chinas infrastructure function 💀 they've built a ton of things that nobody uses . . Look it up
EU should stay the fuck away from Africa.
I don’t think France will easily give up the small amount of power it retains over Africa so I can see how Africans would see the EU as just it’s legacy of a bunch of colonizers.
Anti western propaganda and whiney neo-Marxist degenerate ideology is too prolific, it undermines good relations and development. Blaming every problem on Europe is pathetic, especially when ignoring the many positive forms of aid and cooperation that have benefited Africa. Trusting China is very risky.
Facts
We rather deal with China than the EU
The EU wants influence without paying for it
China pays for influence and still doesn’t get as much as it wants
First of all i'd ask what are africans doing all over europe? I can barely understand they flooding France and Belgium.. but what are they doing in Italy, germany. Poland, Sweden, Greece, east europe, south europe and literally everywhere??
Wouldn’t really call it small
@@sharwama992 well the eu does pay quite a lot and France is not equal to the eu. Most European countries don’t retain any significant institutional power but it’s just saddening to see how and that it needs to happen the way it does
Very insightful!!
Wow
Excellent video! The Russian invasion of Ukraine made matters even more challenging in some way. For example, reliance on natural gas from Egypt and Algeria will undoubtedly increase. Mario Draghi traveled to Congo and Angola in search of alternatives to Russian natural gas. All of this emphasizes the importance of a deeper relationship between the EU and African countries. Sadly as you pointed out there's too little unity in the matters of foreign policy.
Right also i am really surprised that Libia was not mentioned in the video, the impact that it had on the African continent was so deep
@@lyaeusv3828 I guess it's an editing choice, Libya can be a long video on its own
First of all i'd ask what are africans doing all over europe? I can barely understand they flooding France and Belgium.. but what are they doing in Italy, germany. Poland, Sweden, Greece, east europe, south europe and literally everywhere??
@@ivangamer8022 They are there because they are also in fact fellow Homo Sapiens (Human beings) and they are going to europe to get a better life.
@@ivangamer8022 They are there for job opportunities.
This continent is gigantic 😂. Nigeria is unimaginably far from South Africa like waaaay
About as far as Japan is from Finland. Africa is huge and most people don't realize that.
@@fullmetaltheorist 3725 km vs 6131 km only counting mainland🤔
Going from the tip of the Horn of Africa to the westernmost point in Senegal though is 7436 km 😂💁🏿♂️
The distance from Senegal to Kenya is same as distance from Denmark to India
I'm not European or African, but I stand in solidarity with Africa as it persuits its own interests. Personally, as Brazilian, I hope we'll increase south-south ties as an alternative to north-south unequal relations
I am South African. The biggest problem we face is politicians who want their cut from international companies like those in Europe. Our hope is not in the West or China or Russia or anybody else " helping" us. Sure, dont be silly about investment, but we have to allow our own people to drive innovation for our own problems. I dont understand why we buy french trains etc. I am discriminated against in my own country to do business without involving a bunch of freeloaders, but a French company can come here and make money because they create bullshit jobs and make the elite happy. I agree, Africa and South America should trade with each other. We have resources and a young population. And we dont want to control the world. We just have to make our politicians understand that we wont tolerate their greed. All the other excuses are just that, excuses. Political leaders in Africa are the problem.
@@gerhardbotha7336 I agree the biggest problem in Africa and Latin America is internal. East Asia has shown the best strategy for development, we should implement it. Particularly our countries, Brazil and South Africa, being middle income economies, should be doing more in terms of developing local value chains - you mentioned trains but we could talk about a number of other industries like cars. I agree thr key is inside each of our countries and changing our development strategy to be less naive and less dependent on external companies, capital etc
@@gerhardbotha7336
The ANC is so greedy, they let Western companies swarm in and eat everything our South African Oligarchs haven't eaten yet. Our Government is supporting our Business Owners, but only those who will fill their pockets.
@@gerhardbotha7336 Wel,l at this point political leaders are the problem in most of the world
Based.
Good video :) there is however a slight error in the TGV in Morocco, it's from Tangier to Casablanca, and not to Oran, the latter is in Algeria.
Ouppps, you spend so much time looking at the same animation, that it starts looking correct :')
Thanks for the correction!
Cheers,
Hugo
Good correction !
Great video!Only note:Europe-Africa relations go a bit farther back in time than the slave trade
Yeah, we used to trade and have friendly relations with Europe back in the day, they were Hella chill, The new world fucked it up
@@wellthen4128 Not quite slaves were still imported from Africa, nearly all builders of Egypt and Rome were from Africa or (later) babarians from the North.
Carthage became rich because of slave trade.
Same goes for Congo in the age of imperialism.
@@wellthen4128 Ain't that true? Some European who were sold as slaves became important figures in the rise of the Kingdom of Aksum and they were even invited, mostly to spread Christianity, but still.
In West Africa a lot of travelers from Europe visited Timbuktu for trading with no issues.. Seriously what happened?
@@wrestlinganime4life288 What happened was the “Great Divergence.” As Europe became more technologically advanced than the rest of the world, that success got into their heads. They started thinking they were God’s gift to the world and the rest is history. The good thing is this mentality is slowly going away.
@Kryos Rome literally subjugated and conquered all of North and nile valley africa ending at Ethiopia the relationship was certainly not mutual
I've been following your channel for a while. The quality has really grown, and I enjoy the depth. I think an improvement in the music might be the final touch in quality this channel needs to really tip the scale.
Was going to leave this comment, the music at the end was really distracting and unbefitting of the topic you were discussing
Macron facial expression the sense of frustration
Hoping for the best for Europe and Africa. Love and light upon them. 💕 Peace upon the earth.
I will tell you that they stole our wealth and colonized some of our lands. They are evil. I wished they did not have nuclear weapons or weapons, so we would have crushed them with our swords
What Europe is doing for Africa? Nothing, absolutely nothing.
I guess more than you do 😉
@@Pointi69 Yes more than I do by Robbing them in the past of natural resources like Diamonds like they still do with de beers and stuff and colonizing it Robbing them further and bring slaves and then look back and wonder why they doing so bad. Then we the people pump money into these organizations like the un that could actually if they wanted to make africa a Rich place, like they did with dubai and other places.
@@Pointi69 it's still nothing
Wow, this channel was such an awesome find!
Your ability to go beyond the stated policies into their mutual contradictions is what's missing in so many channels that nominally aim to enlighten and inform. This feels more akin to old school reporting of "here's what happened, these are the factors that go into this, don't take any one side's word on things" and show the actions, history and motivations of what's driving this *now* is superb.
Best of luck to you guys. You're on the path to greatness! :)
Thank you, this is precisely what I am trying to do! This is actually now my favorite comment in a very long time.
Thank you for this :)
Cheers,
Hugo
Is this your first time seeing a video that barely passes as informative and with a smidge of critical analysis or something? Everything he mentions is basically a compilation of common knowledge that can be found in just a few clicks.
Your channel is incredible, the scripting, the video editing, and the knowledge. Well done sir!
Thank you! :)
very intrusive music
In my country we the people have reach to the point where we start praying to not have any natural resources in our land😢
Great video :). Love your content.. your channel was a big part of what inspired me to start my own. Keep up the good work
Another great video, as always
Im seeing alot of discussion about how "Africans need to do this and Africans need to do that". And some of those arguments are fair, but many ignore the realities of the current relationship between African Countries and International Corporations (A topic that's rarely discussed).
I regularly hear people lament "If African Leaders were only less corrupt...", while ignoring the rampent corruption that occurs at the highest levels in the developed world. Corruption in Africa is a huge problem, but its a problem everywhere; it's just cheaper to buy an African Head of State then it is to buy the British Prime Minister (although it appears a flat refurbishment is enough now adays).
Traditional Colonialism has ended, so we need to move on from that conversation and tackle the challenges that we face today.
Multi - Nationals play rough shot over African Countries because it's profitable. African Leaders have little incentive to genuinely care about domestic issues because they're real salaries are being paid for by Shell & BP. They exists solely as Govenors in a Neo - Colonial model that no longer requires nation states to enfore their will upon the native populations. And if a leader resists, he'll be voted out (if he's lucky) or some General funded by those same interests will overthrow him. This is well documented, it's not new, and has been going on for decades.
We in the West don't hear about it in the same way that we don't hear about child laborers in South East Asia, because inorder to maintain the low prices of goods our supply chain must be exploitative otherwise it would impact corporate earnings.
So let's be honest, Africa is poor because it must be for us to sustain our current consumption model. If we paid anywhere near fair value for the raw materials we extract from Africa and the Labor we use in Asia you'd have to pay 10k for the next iPhone.
Corruption in the EU and in Africa is not comparable
True, but when push comes to shove nation states DO act in Africa to secure their (and their multinational corporation's) interests. The world has changed, but not so much that the origin of power and capital doesn't matter.
@@sergior. Why not?
@@FOLIPE That's true!
Pin this
all good and dandy, but 150 billion is just nothing in comparison to the investment size of China in Africa
China has peaked and is falling
@@jerrymiller9039 which part of it?
@@jerrymiller9039 we will see
Yeah but that 150 million will go into work rather than the pockers of local corrupt leaders.
The main difference between western loans and Chinese loans is that China doesn't care where it's loan goes since they would prefer to just grab a good port or piece of land to getting the money paid back.
EU is spending 50-90 billion EVERY YEAR for decades in development aid. But africans like to ignore that fact.
Great work, keep it up! Hopefully some politicians watch this channel too
The title doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, because it’s impossible to say ‘Europe’ ‘IS doing’. What France is doing in Africa might be the complete opposite of what Italy would like to see happen in Africa, actually we’ve seen in the past for example, as in the case with Libya, how the interests of different European countries can completely clash with one another. For instance, France wanted to get rid of Gadhafi, whereas Italy absolutely wanted to keep Gaddafi in power.
Great video love from Netherlands
From North Africa
You sir earned my sub and like
Thank you for making this vedio
Allways wondered about what we are doing in África THX!
Wonderful and informative!
Post colonial European imperialism (mostly french and British)
The only reason why they are doing this is because china is slowly taking control of africa and if they fully gain control of africa,china would be unstoppable in terms of power and materials so eu and america wants to aviod that.
you are viewing it from a colonizer mentality.
china is not "taking control" of africa or of america or the middle east.
they are making trade deals with america africa and the middle east.
do you understand the difference?
that's sadly not a rhetorical question.
@@sabin97 I want you to watch every time an African or even Latin American diplomat do speeches on trade deals with China. China is literally writing their scripts. The deals are called “win-win” but somebody is winning far more than the other.
Nope its because before it was controlled by the west cia coups invasion etc so now we support Russia and China who never had have done none of those its only the beginning most African countries are afraid of sanctions or else they would openly support Russia and China and the majority of African population especially the youth don't support the west and its a win win China wants to surpass the us Africans want to develop if Africans countries start electing real leaders uncorruptable independent minded especially from the west while working with China and Russia amd other countries that's the only good future for Africa either way we rather choose Russia over the west any day
@sabin97
I feel like when they talk about how "China is trying to take control of Africa", it's some sort of subconscious projection because they can't fathom doing actual business with African countries instead of exploiting them.
China is not taking control of Africa... Africans are not Stupid, but Chinese partnership is far better than anything many Colonizers can put on the table.
If you think eu is invested in protecting Africa then your crazy
Why wouldn't it be? Isn't Africa a security risk for europe?
@@broti705 Africa is perfect for europe in a weakened state.A strong Africa who controls it's own resources is really scary for them.imagine what would Africa really want from the world.
@@broti705 It is but we shouldn't be naive : Europe have no interest in a strong,peaceful Africa
@@pierrebinyom1747 i don't see that as the case at all, theEU has been pretty supportive of the African Union and the East African Community the past. People have to stop thinking international trade is a zero sum game, a richer and more stable Africa would likely benefit Europe a lot as well and make it easier for both parties to do buisness with eachother. ASEAN is a great example of this as they have recently gone into a strategic psrtnership with the EU
@@pierrebinyom1747 False. Absolutely false. A peaceful and growing Africa is what Europeans want
I'm sure they're spreading happiness and joy, and not trying to steal "our" resources hiding under their soil.
Or perhaps they, like african countries, need resources and trade and europe believes it can have a proper bilateral trade agreement with african nations unlike in the past, but in order for african countries to be able to trade on an even playing field, african countries need something to trade that is competitive with european goods able to be offered to african nations, and if not europe, china is already trying to invest in its own infrastructure between its resource surveys and ports that feed china's economy. Its basic supply and demand. Ignoring europe won't help africa get the most out of its potential trade when its one of the closest and most willing to invest. African countries need to eventually take the initiative in trade and make the offers from a point of strength so they can dictate terms better for themselves, rather than waiting for whoever outside makes an offer, because chances are they are offering with ulterior motives as a matter of basic international diplomacy and pragmatism aka realpolitik. a few african countries are well on the way to being able to trade on more equal terms, but the majority are unstable and either need their economies supercharged to the point that they can push themselves (which would also require strong institutions and less uncertainty about the future) or for an outside power to invest for african countries to be capable of growing stronger, and not to just be some kind of cheap resource and labour pool, which is what china is trying to do with the kinds of development it's put in, china is trying to make africa china's china. europe is more of a mixed bag, a developed protective and consumer-oriented africa will import and export with a balanced economy, but this isn't yet achievable as much corruption and exploitation already exists.
TL;DR
Once the short-sighted profiteers of europe and the world are made to lose ground in africa, then african countries can take charge of their relations and pick wiser friends in europe and the world with certain european institutions which see more benefit in long term, mutually beneficial goals instead of that short-sighted selfish lot like Shell Petroleum, and more like semiconducter design methods and medical universities with study into important medical research.
@@Reivehn Africa is already developing without Europe. They don’t need to trade with Europe. Africans are learning everything from China and other countries.
@@Reivehn internal African trade is growing soon Europe will be a option
@@carthodblade8438 that is exactly what I mean, Europe is becoming an option as several states are becoming easier to trade with by virtue of more consistent and stable government, European authorities are trying to accelerate and facilitate this trade sooner as their reliance for certain resources is strategically being held under a suffocating grip of less agreeable states, like gas and Russian reliance or a dire need to do their own battery production, but not having the resources to do it, or needing batteries, but no nearby producers at reasonable scale, and if African countries can supply that need sooner then its better that wealth and jobs are available for people in Africa with willing consumers of product in Europe, and now Africa is importing from Europe at an gradually increasing rate.
@@Reivehn from what i have seen not really, it's going down. Our exports in Europe are just optional we used to import cars but now not that much, we signed a deal that cars should be assembled in that country and the company could use the local resources in order to encourage growth and development; example we expected avocado to china and Malaysia because we also buy their products we export flowers to Russia because they sell us fertilizer, but europe can not, now we do trade with people that do trade with us we only borrow when It's only needed to but not in the IMF but to country that we do trade with, but if you borrow money from American or Europe you are likely not to get it because of some reason i don't know what. And that what is currently happening
Great video as always 👍
Pretty impressive. Thanks for the great job
This was a good video. Twelve minutes well spent.
Thank you for another great video :). I really love your content.. This channel was a big part of what inspired me to start my own.
Keep up the good work Into Europe TEAM!
I found interesting that Europe has not realised one major difference: Africa is not a continent with just Black people, but even with the Arab-speaking inhabitants also live there. Basically, Africa is actually divided into two halves: the Arab and the Black.
The Arabs of Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Somalia, Djibouti, Comoros, Sudan and possibly, Chad) has a stronger connection with Europe and Middle East. These people do not like Europe much (though their tie is also ancient), but they do not trust Russia strong enough to believe on Russian media. This is because, they have been deeply influenced by Turkey and Saudi Arabia. And the Turks as well as the Saudis dislike Russia to some extent. The Turks have fought Russia since 16th century, while the Saudis issued global jihad against Russia during the war in Afghanistan at 1980s and Chechnya at 1990s. The Muslim Arabs of Africa have mostly heard the calls against Russia because of either these powers, Muslim Arabs of Africa did volunteer for the Ottomans, a lot of African Arabs have arrived to Afghanistan and Chechnya.
The Blacks of Africa, on the other hand, have no such connection. Without Turkish and Saudi influence, they have very little contact until the European colonisation, where the Europeans brutalised them. As such, they found Russia their only saviours, and they deeply resented Europe and America for the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991. Many of these nations sent students to study in USSR during its height, and that link was maintained even after the end of USSR. These people are more prone to Russian influence because of France's actions in Africa and the American quiet support have made them resenting Europe even more, making them less likely to receive European aids. When Mali and Central African Republic have coups in 2021, many of these people celebrated Russian arrival.
This is even witnessed during the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian War. Arabs of Africa are aware of the Ukrainian Muslims (Crimean Tatars, Chechens,...) going to fight against Russia, while Blacks of Africa volunteered in the Russian invading side and some are even now in the frontline helping the Russians. Yet it is basically the old scar returning, due to history of Arab enslavement and racism against Black Africans.
If Europe wants to build successful tie with Africa, it should try to rebuild tie with the Black part, apologising for its crimes, and ending France's neo-colonialism. With the Arab part, Europe should provide a scheme of cooperation and support together, at the same time also try to encourage the Arabs there to rebuild relations with the Blacks. Only there, Europe can finally have some good peace.
So Africa even fights against each other. How ironic. But I guess this explains why China, Russia and EU have such different investment style.
@@josephjoestar5690 bro, Africa is a whole damn continent. you thought it’s all just ‘african’?
@@joaopk6263 No. But this is just I found that Africans even distrust each other. We are not taught about that before.
@@josephjoestar5690 you aren't?! Even in a tiny continent like europe there are manu conflicts, what do you expect of a massive one like africa, one with such a difficult history (colonialism)
@@FOLIPE I am Canadian, so literally I do not grow up learning European history. I am aware of the slave trades though, but I don't know much about it.
What a brilliant video! Subscribed.
Thank you!
Spain also has military operations going on in Mali, Djibouti and Senegal if I’m not mistaken.
not just that but they still have occupied ceuta and melilla. so it's understandable that africans wont trust the colonizers......because they are STILL colonizers.....
the first step to peace in africa would be to have africa draw its own borders instead of using borders drawn by europeans in the 1890s
They are free to do so since 1960s, and already plenty of countries redrew their borders.
People love to critize the African borders, but they are not worst than the ones drew in 1914 and 1945 after both WW in Europe.
People should stop advocating for ethnostates in Africa that are pure fantasy anyway.
The issue in Africa are not at all the frontiers.
That's opening a Pandora's box sadly, Africa still needs to open it's borders and let Africans travel with in Africa with ease.
“Whoever wins Africa, will win the next century” -Jude Cutler
Lol shut up
@@RA-ms3je lol, hopefully it would be best if Sub Saharan Africa could succeed on its own without too much foreign investment
@@quotes612 how would it do that? Africa neither have the funds, infrastructure or human resources (educated population, and trusted institutions) to succeed on its own at the moment
@@LuKing2 strike a fair deal with china , thy will take their money and run for Africa.
@@LuKing2Africa can buy infrastructure with resources and if African immigrants go home they will have Human Resources. You act as if most European are educated most work wage slave jobs
The fact that they're doing this to combat China's influence in Africa is crazy. It took China coming in to help Africa rebuild themselves for the people who actually destroyed Africa to come back and clean up their mess.
The problem is, China isn't doing this to help Africa, its entrapment with debt traps and control over a lot of Africa resources and in some ways, even a land grab which isn't in the interest of the African people but I think it will be too late before they realize that but I hope I'm wrong on that.
China didn't rebuild anything. They are just the new colonizers.
Yep!
That is just false information: 1) The European Union is not responsible for the destruction of Africa. Colonisation of Africa is something that was done until the early 20th century while the EU didn't come to existence until 1993, and it started centuries earlier with even non-European countries involved such as Egypt.
2) The EU has been supporting all African countries with money, material, military aid and education since the year 2000 with an estimated investment of over 60 billion euros - and now they signed a deal for an additional 150 billion euros making a total of 210 billion euros. 3) China has been investing into African countries on a small scale since the 1980s with the overwhelming majority going to South Africa, Sudan, Nigeria, Sambia and Algeria. Recently, it started to focus on more countries with political instability and where the EU isn't investing the most such as Ethiopia. Altogether, it is estimated that China invested 148 billion euros with its priorities being the development of oil extraction, transportation and the development of internet / telecommunication. While all of these investments are generally beneficial for these countries, they are ultimately done in a way that isn't appropriate by decent morality standards given the fact that the transportation services have harsh dept clauses and can immediately by seized by China, there already are election manipulation scandals in the Central African Union due to Beijing's hacking involvement as well as spying technology, and as the video depicted properly: No investments and building processes have human rights standards which ultimately means that in some instances, Chinese investors are treating the locals in a similar way that pre-20th century colonisers did to them.
China is a significant investor in African countries for the past decade now. However, in order to be less criticised and actually build sustainable networks that improve the overall quality of life of African citizens, the target nations need to work with harsher regulations - similar to what the EU does - so that they aren't being spied on, they don't fall prey to greedy infrastructure owners, their elections stay democratic and their people have safe work conditions with proper payment!
@@akumayoxiruma yes it is, france still is a bad actor in africa and is in the EU.
while EU can't be blame for what happen 100 years ago it can be blamed for what happen today, cooperation pay off officials against African countries interest in favor of EU never mind EU intervention to protect those interest every now and then to protect those cooperations.
lastly fuck no didn't u hear? EU doesn't support with military aid, they intervene against whom ever they don't like but they don't sell weapon hence why russia is often the one that sell them.
EU miltiray aid = coup against who oppose us
Excellent overview!
Great analysis
good work for the video
Another awesome video :)
Great theme and video as always,
à quand une chaine en francais btw ?
Ce sera la première chaine que je créerai dans une autre langue européene! ;) Mais j'ai encore quelques progrès à faire en matière d'animation, de recherche et de storytelling avant de d'entamer ce projet.
Cheers,
-Hugo
This video is beautiful 🤩
BRI from China, B3W from the US and G7, and now the Global Gateway from the EU. Is there a Russian or Indian initiative like these?
India has still a lot to do for themselves (but they might want to start to invest too) & Russia is entering a gloomy economic future. Engaged in pseudo-trench warfare and having pushed aside their economic problems to the coming years. I doubt anything will come from Russia, that country is done until they get their democracy right
Russia was semi creator of BRI too. BRI would have been impossible without Russias land connection or intl bureaucracy, wise
Russia steals Ukrainian resources and sells them to Africa, and they are a major provider of military equipment to problematic warlords... Indians often set up business outposts amid their clans, but seems like they often develop resentment and hostility, because of obnoxious behavior or jealousy from locals...
@@assertivekarma1909 are you talking about grains ? Cause what resources magically appear on drone and rockets battlefield unless blasts can dig
what is b3w
Great video but Luigi Di Maio has never been interior minister. Other than that your videos keep getting better.
Am I the only one who noticed he highlighted “Guyane française” as well? Other than that great video.
It is part of the EU actually :)
Cheers,
Hugo
@@IntoEurope I know that I’m from there hahah!
@@IntoEurope Ita a colony. Europe and the West try to propagate a narrative of "freedom" but actually possess a colonial empire till this day.
I did notice ! Not many video creators do that when showing the EU on a map, so that was appreciated.
No you aren't.
'Rekindling EU's relationship with Africa'? Poorly worded sentiment based on a misguided reading of EU's own history in Africa.
Great Video! Just a slight remark: there has not been any confirmed case of China's right to seize infrastructure in case of default (what you mention at 7:50), despite all the talk about Chinese debt traps. You might want to check your sources on that one. Other than that, nicely done video about an interesting topic which definitely deserves more attention!
Yeah the whole dept trap thing is a bit overexaggerated. PolyMatter made a great video on the topic. The fact is there's no actual evidence to show they are partaking in dept trap diplomacy. The thing they are actually doing is just giving out massive loans to anybody and everybody to curry favour and influence, but in the vast majority of cases where investments do fail they forgive the depts.
Here's PolyMatter's video:
czcams.com/video/7gwgcIfzttA/video.html
Hmm, I had read about Chinese infrastrucutre deals being quite harsh in general, but indeed it does seem you are right about the debt trap, I wasn't sufficiently informed (I looked into the Sri Lanka port treaty, which turns out is something different from what I had originally thought).
Thanks for your comment!
Cheers,
Hugo
Well, it is true, no key african infrastructure has been yet ceded to China, as of today the countries that have been enslaved to china via debt are all in Asia (Laos, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan) but if you can imagine what happens next for many african countries. China decides what infrastructure to build in african countries to fit chinese needs, zambia owes to china 5bn, angola 16 5 bn (each roughly 25% of their own GDP), Mozambique 2bn(10% of GDP), these are insane numbers tied to projects that will have only a limited impact on african countries economies overall. Unfortunately these countries are destined to become colonies again unless someone else step in to bail them out and save them.
@@xyris1208 and who is this someone that youre talking about? Europeans? 😂 fk me! 21st century and youre still playing superhero saving humanity. Get a grip!
@@IntoEurope I think the argument is the clauses are in there, and China could choose to use them if it wanted even if they haven't yet. At the moment China is trying to buy friends in Africa, they're playing the long game, so it probably doesn't make much sense for them to spring any of these traps at the moment.
What's the song during the EU's challenges in Africa segment?
12:43 If it has to distance itself from that legacy, than its impossible.
We live on the same planet lol
4:50 The train in Morocco is from Tanger to Casablanca not Oran
But the video is great
Great video!
Western countries suddenly discovered that Africa could be realistically a huge market for their affairs and realized also that China was trying to seize it entirely.
What a surprise.
Why these people doesnt study a bit of Machiavelli?
Great video. Europe is Making believe it's only on Africa 's interests when we all know the resources are all in Africa and europe benefits greatly.The race for Africa part 2
Will Africa win. This time will they prioritise educational it's citizens or banning and shopping it's financial proceeds in Europe, which Europeans can confiscate at will, Russia is learning the hard way and Russia is an equal to all of Europe.
African countries (colonies) had to pay France alone EU980 billion for their independence. In Congo, colonized slave working in plantations, had limbs chopped off if they failed to meet quota. Its hard for Africans to forget the exploitation of their resources and abused of their people in the hands of colonist masters from Europe. Europe has a serious trust deficit. Like US leaders, hard to trust what EU leaders says, they seems to have ulterior motives and hidden agenda. The imperialist and colonist mindset seems to be still lingering, doubt they will ever treat the Africans as equals. So when the Russians, Indians, Chinese etc comes along and see them as peers, its refreshing to the Africans.
@kızgın tosbağa they didn’t take shit
Ah yes the good old excuse the west had to do with colonialism and so everything it does is bad.
I have news for you 1 Every nation and civilization did some terrible shit in history, colonialism just was one of the last things, should we ask the mongols why they were the most bloody and murderous nation in history? Or why 5 of the most bloody wars in history are only Chinese wars? Or you know what? Lets go to more recent times lets go after colonialism and see why Russia murdered more people then nazi Germany (23 millions) and how Mao Zedong managed to starve 49 millions of its citizens and kill other millions of state enemies, is having the 2 most murderous dictators of the last century a good track record for helping another nation?
2 but ok lets leave the past to the past and lets look at the present.
In the present Europe gives largely the most charity to Africa and absorbs 90% of African immigrants (how many are Russia and China and India accepting).
While with some problems we actually try to mantain human rights in Africa while Russia is invading Ukraine using ridiculous excuses and China tries to hide its terrible treatment if the Uhgyurs.
We don't set debt traps to countries basically making them colonies 2.0, and we don't send mercenary groups with the fame of the Wagner group to help dictators.
You probably noted the heated tone in the comment and the reason is that this argument is stupid, there are many better arguments against Europe effectiveness in Africa, you could say we are indecisive, you could say we don't take enough risks and other things, but colonialism is a repeating and idiotic reason not to continue helping Africa like we are doing now
If you really believe that Chinese and Russian see you as equal you need to travel more.
@Sao Ham I pity your colonized mindset man truly, snap out of it. Europeans have Been shamed for years about there past so the we are better feeling is mostly faded. But Chinese and Russian still have it and way more than you think. They act nice now because it's a competition but once the west leaves and they become the only one's there you will realise your mistake. I don't understand why Africans thing they have to choose, Don't choose play them of each other be smart about the situation take advantage.
@@lekso31 I travelled a lot in last 60 years. I can see your problem is you dont see the Russians and Chinese as your equal.
4:52 on the map it shows that high speed rail is between Tangier and oran, it’s tangier and Casablanca, oran is in algeria
Africa shouldn't be still under control from foreign powers, especially Europe. The African countries should unite and produce products for it's development and people
I agree but when an African nation becomes too good at governing it's people America starts a civil war speed run
The Africa countries have had thousands of years to combine forces, but
This isn't really about control and more about building better ties for both sides, but honestly, I would be more worried about China than I would with the EU because China aim is to get more control over shows African countries by using debt trap diplomacy.
I think if the EU is to be successful in Africa, it has to offer something better than what China is offer, money helps in the short term but overall, it doesn't make that much of a dent in economic growth, what Africa needs is know-how in building a modern economy, the EU is very successful in doing that as it's shown with countless countries that joined the EU and became a lot richer for it.
If the EU helps Africa to develop, that would be worth far more than any money the EU or China gives Africa because the know-how will allow Africa to stand on it's own feet, that would be far more useful than throwing money at the problem which a lot of it gets wasted anyway, but then, it's up to the African countries to choose.
I agree 100% but that's definitely easier said than done. Every nation that's powerful today had to give in and cooperate with other countries.
@@paul1979uk2000 what debt trap explains last I've heard is that China has forgiven a lot of debt what debt has the western world has ever forgiven plus is not the western countries that offer money to countries then privately own their resources making paying back loans impossible
1) Mineral extraction: how does Africa benefit from this exploitation?
2) Export market: how many local business will go bankrupt as a result?
3) Global standards will only work for western companies opening business in Africa, see 2).
4) Migration control is mostly self-serving for the EU. The only new jobs will mostly benefit western companies, see 1) and 2)
5) Stability and security... After invading Africa not long ago and leaving it to its own devices since, the instability is due to European meddling. Now they're hoping to fix the problems they've caused? Again, this is arrogant and self-serving to the extreme.
6) 'Push visions and values'. In other words: this is just modern day colonialism. Where in all this are the values of the African peoples respected?
This whole thing reeks of a knee-jerk reaction to China's presence and involvement in the continent. Before building infrastructures and dumping its own companies on the continent, how about Europe invest in _toilets_ for schools? In medical care for the more remote regions? In access to clean water and food across the continent? Hell, do we even know the state of each country and where its _real_ problems lie, and how we can implement solutions that will _not_ cause the opposite effect?
EU has no business in Africa, and that's me saying that as a European, "western"-country citizen.
this is a neoliberal propaganda channel
"5) Stability and security... After invading Africa not long ago and leaving it to its own devices since, the instability is due to European meddling. Now they're hoping to fix the problems they've caused? Again, this is arrogant and self-serving to the extreme."
Yeah sure:D africans fight each other with spears because Europeans did some diamond business there 100 year ago
@@AD-ro6yp I think this video can explain it better than I ever could: czcams.com/video/LvKONiRHgkU/video.html
Let’s face it Europe just doesn’t have the materials needed for their EV’s
they don’t even have the industrial capacity to process some resources and create alloys for electric vehicles (batteries), most of this industry is located in China.
This video sounds more about ‘competition with China and Russia’ than ‘help Africa’, or ‘do business in Africa’.
And I guess that’s what’s wrong with European’s attitude towards Africa-it’s never about the Africans.
0:41 "What is Europe doing in Africa?" That is a good question someone should've asked a long time ago!
The Europeans said for many years, Africa is a lost continent that could not be saved. The same haunted faces now say they want to help and invest in Africa. Don't believe that crap.
Mali, well done! ✌️
No serious Europeans said that.
Yeah good job Mali for doing a pro Russian coup, as they are now dying by hundreds killed by terrorists and Mali/Warner mercenaries. Good job.
Don’t come to Europe then, thanks
@@mrsupremegascon Mali propaganda again nothing will bring back wretched France in Mali, France should kick rocks for all we care and fckoff
@@nicola.innocenti enjoy the winter freezing to death Z
This is a classical case of the hunter becoming the hunted.
Europe gets resources out of Africa with low prices and keep it undeveloped for centuries🤓
Europe should be more focused on fixing itself than anything else. 🙄
But nah, just let all sorts of immigrants come into the continent
From What I've seen this is a CZcamsr with some promise I hope he continues to rise
Yeah... when the judge gives the final judgement, it's based on the criminals past history. I would say the same applies here. Africa won't close its doors to Europe, but will have a huge impact on how Africa will deal with Europe.
A big flaw of your logic is that countries aren’t a single entity, criminals are. Most of the people that colonised are already dead. You wouldn’t say that someone is a criminal because their grandfather killed someone. Africa still should be cautious with the EU but it’s just not the same.
@@miagatwa2457 bullshit! The impact of colonization is still strong in Africa. Apartheid was still well and running in the late 20th century. Those who experienced apartheid are still alive to tell their stories. These African countries gained their independence in the 60s and many people who fought for independence are still Alive. So educate yourself before you go on a foolish moral lecture. The truth of the matter is Africa should guard itself from Europe. FYI, we are talking about countries that colonized and massacred people. Not grandfathers.. the countries that colonized are still well and running so his point was valid.
@@miagatwa2457 Your take is naive, at best. I give you two reasons:
(1) People in Europe are still benefiting from the crimes of dead colonisers. Acting as is the past has no consequences in the present will not do.
(2) European countries and corporations take advantage of African nations to this day.
If the EU wanted to do these things, they would of done it already. Not when China is doing it. Anyway they have enough problems at home with Russia. I think they should focus of that. I see the begining of the end for them 😢
RIP European Disunion
The EU is a massive economy and can focus on both things, besides, the issues with Russia and energy is very short term of just a few years, not a big deal overall.
As for helping Africa, I agree, the EU should have helped a long time ago, but things tend to have a reactive effect depending on what others are doing, in this case China.
Personally, I think China is trapping many countries in Africa with debt trap diplomacy, that's not a good thing because it could make those countries poorer in the long run whiles signing over assets over to China as they can't pay off the debts, it's a smart move from China but it's bad news for Africa, but for many, it's too little too late already.
@@paul1979uk2000 I like your optimism about Russia and energy being a short term problem. What are they suppose to do for these few years without Russian supply btw? For eg. in Germany, even they reach 100% stock pile, this will only last few winter month. Thats why they have been running to other countries like Qatar to give them gas, who refused them btw. What are the other options? Renewable energy? Since they reopened the coal mines something tells me that this is still a joke. Only way is to reach a concession with Russia, which is what the citizens of the EU has realized, which is why there was massive protest in the last days there. Given that the EU thinks it is still a unipolar world where they dictate to everyone what to do with their master the great USA, i Dont think they will concede, which makes me believe it not gono end soon.
@@paul1979uk2000 It is always funny to read comments like these coming from the west about China entrapping African countries through insfracture and other projects. Western countries have been doing the exact same thing in a much more brutal way to entrap countries, through regimes changes, bloody foreign occuption. And when they finish destroying that target country, they give to it an IMF loan that they surely wont be able to pay back so they can exploit you more. So dont tell me you actuallly give 2 cents about african exploition. Atleast China is helping them make some progress, instead of bombing and colonizing.
@@paul1979uk2000 It is almost 2023 and there are still people who believe in china debt traps...
Basically, EU wants Africa to develop taking EU needs into consideration. Ursula said that if funding projects in Africa leads to helping Chinese investment, EU doesn't want to fund those projects. EU says it wants to be a reliable partner with Africa but so far it seems EU wants to continue it's centuries of abusive relationship.
@@cabidela We here talking about developing a country and you bring up example of banks??? You do know that relationship build by countries are vastly different compared to banks.
Anyways, if I am not mistaken, it's EU who wants to increase there influence in Africa for better future. The EU leaders also want to show EU helping in the development of Africa. But at the same time if helping Africa means profit for China, EU doesn't want to help Africa anymore.
EU messaging all over the place like everything these days. All the talk of become a reliable partner goes do the drain if EU keeps it current policies.
Lastly, since you brought up banks. Let me remain you than EU's current declining influence in Africa is because they acted like banks. Only funding projects than profited EU massively and almost no funding to develop Africa.
@@crishhari5903 While I totally agree that we Europeans didn’t treat you well, I don’t get why you believe this would be different with a Chinese or even Russian partnership.
Every nation or union has its own interest in mind.
@@tempo5366 More options, better bargaining power.
Add to that, so far China has been a much better partner compared to EU. Only time will tell if China is reliable long term but long history with Europe has already shown EU approach and bad faith.
That being said, African countries need to work together for better future and be less reliable on outside forces. But for the time being, assistance from outside is needed.
@@tempo5366 Europeans believe that the Chinese will carry out the cruel, vile and degenerate acts that they themselves did. Hahahahaha it is not possible to overcome the cruelty, racism and hypocrisy with which Europe treated Africa
I know what the European project´s aim is. If you search inside the soul of an average democratic voter, you find a thirst for justice, agreement, mutual support and a path to a better future. This is the foundation that an enlightened, educated, free voter wants. This is the building blocks in the foundation of a civilization.
If you want fast solutions, censorship, fugitive politicians or extreeme inequality, do not look to Europe.
I'm rooting for Africa to get everything they can
5:50 Ehh, the Europeans are pulling out of Mali while Russian Wagner presence is increasing and relations with Russia getting closer.
I had listened enough with little Mermaid, and she can't even solve the EU oil/gas crisis and inflations. Time will tell if she can last till early 2023.
Well there was old trade with Rome and the Garmants back in 200 a.C.
Or even older if you think about Carthage as Africa.
Not a word on UK? Leaving EU does not mean living Europe. UK had colonies all over Africa! What is UK today's participation to Africa's development? What benefits does it still derive from this past?
It's too late for EU to gain Africa trust and will need a titanic effort to convince we are here to help. On a serious side Russia propaganda against the EU is true to a certain extent. I have my country, Romania as an example. Even though we are a member state since 2007, we are still badly viewed in other member states such as Germany, we are not a Shengen space member mainly because Holland is opposed to our adherence and since the pandemic there now exist a palpable faction in favour of leaving the EU. Even though since joining living standards has improved , we are still the main exporter of skilled labour for EU states such as Italy, Spain, France and Germany, with each passing year hundreds of Romanians leave to work in Wester European nations. Because of this we became a sort of a poster child for propaganda of why joining or make deals with EU would make you a economic colony.
sounds like your government is blaming all its problems on the west, like poland. not being part of schengen and brain drain are bad, sure, but that doesnt account for being an economic colony.
Just goes to show that people will always find something to complain about..
And that is when you are an insider, allowed to move and receiving subsidies, having institutional power. None of that is in the line for Africa
Economic colony ? Are you hearing yourself
First Romania joined before meeting all the necessary criteria and thus is not part of Schengen of the eurozone the pandemic thing is first very understandable and second a very rare occurrence
Second Romania isn't kept out of the eurozone and Schengen almost every EU state HAS to eventually integrate into the two areas and there's no incentive whatsoever economic or otherwise for the other states to keep us out
And third Romania has seen some of the fastest growth not just in Europe but the world thanks to the EU and while yes the mass migration is a very bad issue it can't compare to the sheer economic miracle of our state and you can't just dismiss it as "living standards have improved" everything is better than it's ever been
If you call this colonisation than good sir check the dictionary
@@FarsightAE couldn't have said it better myself
Morocco is investing a lot in Africa too
Morocco 🇲🇦 Is Africa, we see them as brothers and sisters
great video
I only have one thing to say, Europe haven’t done enough harm to the continent of Africa specially France.
Huh??
LoL
Least brainswashed european:
I guess you are French?
I guess you're deeply sleeping 😴
Imagine if the EU(mainly germany ofc) invested these 150 BILLION in the EU??? Desperately needed aswell
Excellent
Before accepting new deals, Africa should request to nullify or modify old unfavorable deals. Else there'll be contradictions.
I don't think African countries have enough bargaining power with enteties like China and the IMF for that to be successful
@@LuKing2 the resources they need for their advanced economies disagree. Without the Congo more than 40% of the world's cobalt would vanish
@@franzjoseph1837 Well wonderfully the Congolese government is ineffective, corrupt, and doesn’t even have complete control over it’s internationally recognized borders. No one else really needs them, and resource extraction can still happen even in the middle of a war
@@franzjoseph1837 luckily we will be using it less as we are researching alternatives
@@thereap5348 alternatives to Cobalt? There are only three ferromagnetic transition elements. Iron, Nickel, and Colbalt. There are no alternatives to this as these are essential in almost all electrically powered manufactured goods for their special interaction with electrical currents that isn't replicated in other elements.
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What europe is REALLY doing in Africa? Ask Desmond Tutu.
"When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “let us close our eyes and pray.” When we opened them, we had the Bible, and they had the land."
😂
lol
This is exactly what happened to african continent , specially chrishtian countries.
africa is not a singular country and neither is the european union.
nice video :)
Well-Done
The high speed rail system in morocco was built from tangier to Casablanca and not Oran , oran is in algeria
Good video, but as an African with a master in finance I must set the record straight. There's is absolutely no true aid from EU. The so-call aid all comes with strings attached in form of mineral extraction rights, conditions to borrow from only from western institutions like world bank and IMF which comes with very high interest rates, keep the economies of Africa heavily indebted which they further use as leverage. The dark side they don't tell you is, this loans and aid are forced on Africa, if a country refused any of them, their leaders will be labelled and call dictator. France on the other hand goes as far as inciting rebellions in the countries so they can come in as "peacekeepers" and along comes French companies to extract the country's resources. Now you know.
if that is the case, African people that live in France would protest and riot 24/7 the French government for what it is doing to the African countries these people came from.
I think everything is much more in the grey area than simply black&white.
Good video
it's easier said than done, have you ever asked your self how much Africa gains per year to be able to fund industries even railways, roads, ports, etc my countries budget for a year is 20trillion naira which is that like the equivalent of 409billion dollars this money was even able to come to life because of more borrowing.
African countries don't have the funds to develop faster than you think, people think Africa is poor because It chose to be not knowing that its the system that makes them poor and with this increase in interest rates it just makes matters worse. China is the only country that is making an effort to a developed Africa, thanks to the loans they gave us we now have a better rail network we have a big port still under construction and our international airports can receive the expansion that it desperately needs. Europe knows how to solve Africa's problems but prefer not to solve it cause Africa's current state favours them.
Nothing constructive to be precise, that is the simplest answer.
Europe needs to settle the old deal before proposing a new deal.
The old colonial deal was based on exploitation, Europe must take responsibility for its actions and that includes Reparations.
Only then can the beginnings of a new deal be discussed.
Anything else is a waste of time.
Reparations for what? Africans selling out their own country and enslaving their own people?
What's that realistic world image? Can someone give me a link to it?
How did you make those effects
I don’t know if you’re joking or not by saying “What Africans perceive as “colonialism”. My man, that’s called NEOCOLONIALISM! Read about it, please.
Do you really believe the UE is really concerned with bringing “stability” and “respect for human rights”? There’re reasons why Africans prefer by far making deals with China. They know perfectly that It’s more convenient for them, don’t infantilize them as if they don’t know what’s good for them.
I am Vietnamese. I agree with your comment
@@tranvanduc2138 good to know! I’m Chilean and I know perfectly how neocolonialism works, in my case with the US
These westerners are living in a bubble of their own . They think their governments are as benevolent spread democracy and protect human rights just because these values are sacrosanct in EU territory when in fact everything the west does in Africa is to keep it dependent on Europe, Destabilized with no future. Don't blame them they have been brainwashed by liberal media that they are a force for good because if European citizens actually knew about the dirty stuff Europe does in Africa to insure its interests, they'd revolt against their ruling class. The model of the EU is whitewashed exploitative capitalism where they get high living standards by exploiting others and pretending they're not unlike the US where they shamelessly exploit counties publically
The saddest thing is not that Russia and China are doing the same thing that Europe has done centuries ago... the saddest thing is that Europe doesn't seem to be able to offer a more practical, fair, peaceful and, ultimately, meaningful alternative! I can only hope it changes quickly. Respect is the most important word!
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wrong, when did the EU forgive debts to africans like china did recently?
China did not colonize and genocide Africans a century ago or today or tomorrow. The Europeans did and will again. Leopard does not change its spots. And what do you expect from evil former and neo-colonial imperialists?
Not really speaking as an African and descendant of freedom fighters. Russia China relations are mutual beneficial. The give loan to Africans at reasonable rates. build infrastructure for us base on our needs. The western always take and are only beneficial to them. China brokers deals for affordable oil for Africans from the Arab world the west sell us over priced oils. China build manufacturing plants in Africa then export made products from Africa to china creating employment and a self sustaining industry. the west steals raw materials in Africa enslaved the Africans to work on their projects and fight their wars, burnt down settlements of entire tribes and stole their Land (The Belgians committed genocide of over 6 million Africans in central Africa ), stole sacred artifacts that are still on display in Europe today. Don't compare the western savagery to the support of offered by the East
China is doing the same thing that Europe has done centuries ago? Really? So China is committing the worst genocide that the world has ever seen and enslaving the native population? Can I get the sources on that one?
What China is doing is leagues better than what the EU is CURRENTLY doing, which is trying it's best to keep neocolonialism alive and keep benefiting from past genocides...
Woah !!! What's Oran doing in Morocco ? It should've been Casablanca at the end of that High Speed Train line !!
see: dependency theory + geoffrey ingham’s account of debt as central to money creation + graeber’s account of debt as means of subjugation
Another way of looking at it. “China took a different approach, we need to in order to distance ourselves further from the colonial misdeeds because African politicians are rubbing shoulders with China. We need to up our game a little”. Long story short… give a little and take a lot more.
Its called investment
As someone with relatives in Africa: China's approach only sounds good on paper. The Chinese build self contained sub-economies there which only is profitable for China. No jobs for Africans (All Workers are imported from China who work there), no trade (all parts and material needed taken from China), no really usable infrastructure (all roads are only for transports to mines and factories). It's an even worse deal than with many European countries.
Nothing's gonna happen. European short sighted governments dig their own people's pit. Then how they gonna help Africa.