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One of the most enduring economic relationships is between Europe and Africa, which gathered pace in the fifteenth century during the era of European adventurism abroad. The nature and configuration of this age-old relationship have inherently been asymmetrical, because the two groups of countries have existed on different planes of economic development. Today, the European Union (EU) comprises some of the most developed countries in the world, whereas Africa, approximately twice that of the EU in membership, includes most of the world’s poorest countries. Hence, their relationship has essentially been between two unequal groups, whereby Africa has been dependent on the EU for economic assistance and commerce in its quest for development. This core-periphery relationship, a legacy of the colonial experience, has enabled the EU to dominate negotiations between the two.1
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Babarinde, O., Wright, S. (2013). Africa-EU Partnership on Trade and Regional Integration. In: Mangala, J. (eds) Africa and the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137269478_5
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