Europe-Afrique

Europe and Africa : regionalism without co-prosperity. The current trend towards concentration of international trade and financial flows around the «Triad» invites Europe to translate regionalism in terms of integration. New policies, based on proximity linkages, are being developed with Eastern Europe and the Maghreb states. In subsaharan Africa, the colonial past is so recent that it influences deeply attemps to renovate existing polity frameworks. Economic transitions also appear impossible to conceive without prior inclusion of non viable staes into larger entities. Notwithstanding the potentials attributed to South Africa and Nigeria, subsaharan Africa lacks regional powers capable of combining hegemonic functions towards sub-regional integration and external mediation for access to the world economy

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