Europe's unfair dialogue with Africa

At an EU-Africa summit in Paris on Tuesday the EU tried to rally support for its immigration pact among African partner states. The left-wing daily die tageszeitung describes the partnership as unfair. "This is how the European Union pictures dialogue with Africa: First the Europeans work out a political course among themselves. Then the Africans are asked to approve it. This is what they call partnership. On this basis, and in return for development aid, the African governments are to undertake to wrap their citizens over the knuckles whenever they get the silly idea of emigrating to Europe without Europe having asked them to do so. ... Is this what the future of European-African relations is supposed to look like?"

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