Europe and Africa must address the issue of illicit financial flows (IFFs) and prioritise the delivery of greater domestic resource mobilisation so that public resources can be invested in public services according to the directors of the European Think Tanks Group (ETTG). They also say that both continents could reduce their reliance on global supply chains.

But the directors are concerned that a long-awaited new EU-Africa partnership announced in March may be knocked off-course by the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

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