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EU Urged to Copy China’s Belt and Road Plan to Engage in Africa

  • Report by experts to be discussed by EU finance ministers
  • Bloc may concentrate development firepower in a single entity
France's president Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the One Planet Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, in  March 14 2019. EU finance ministers will discuss this week the establishment of a “European Climate and Sustainable Development Bank” to consolidate the bloc’s development funding activities in Africa.

France's president Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the One Planet Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, in  March 14 2019. EU finance ministers will discuss this week the establishment of a “European Climate and Sustainable Development Bank” to consolidate the bloc’s development funding activities in Africa.

Photographer: Luis Tato/Bloomberg

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The European Union is being urged to copy China’s Belt and Road Initiative to better channel the billions of euros in aid it sends to Africa each year.