Europa braucht Afrika. Wir bringen zusammen, wer zusammen gehört.
Die Welt sortiert sich neu. Deutschland und Europa müssen entscheiden, mit wem sie ihre Zukunft gestalten.
Rohstoffe, Fachkräfte, Energie, Digitalisierung, Gesundheit, Klima – viele der drängendsten Fragen lassen sich nur gemeinsam und über Kontinente hinweg lösen. Afrika ist dabei ein entscheidender Partner.
Seit zehn Jahren bringt Global Perspectives Entscheidungsträger aus Europa und Afrika zusammen, schafft Kontext und stärkt afrikanische Stimmen im europäischen Diskurs.
So entstehen Wissen, Verständnis und Vertrauen – und daraus konkrete Zusammenarbeit.
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Global Perspectives: Europe's Geopolitical Security in a Multipolar World | Alliance for integrated Security
Alliance for Integrated Secruity
Europe’s Geopolitical Security in a Multipolar World
The global order is changing rapidly, with far-reaching consequences for security and stability in Europe. Germany, in particular, must take on a greater role in ensuring its own security. This requires new partnerships, economic cooperation, and broader security concepts that go beyond military approaches alone. Against this backdrop, Global Perspectives has established the Alliance for Integrated Security. This network aims to collaborate with experts from the Global South to promote a more comprehensive understanding of security.
Program
The Africa Roundtable
The Africa Roundtable is the forum for decision-makers from politics, business and civil society on European-African cooperation, which deals with current pressing issues and challenges of the neighbouring continents and develops partnership-based solutions and models for future cooperation.
Resilient Health Systems
Health is the fundamental requirement for individual, social, economic and political development and stability. Economic growth cannot be achieved without a healthy population. Building resilient health systems requires a global perspective and can only be ensured through coordinated international action. This can only be done by taking into account the views and needs of our neighboring continent.
Business for Future
Without economic growth, there can be no sustainable development. Through dialogue with business and industry leaders, we create understanding, highlight business opportunities and motivate greater engagement on the continent. In doing so, we focus particularly on topics such as entrepreneurship, technology and investment, financial infrastructures and women's economic empowerment in the European-African context.
Future of International Cooperation
Global challenges require a renewed, forward-looking form of multilateralism and a broader understanding of security. Building effective partnerships requires taking at least two aspects into account: the rise of increasingly interconnected international conflicts and the growing importance of the Global South. What does this mean for Germany and Europe? The Alliance for Integrated Security and the Commission "A Changing World - Germany and the Global South," initiated by Global Perspectives, explore this question.
Global Perspectives establishes Commission
“A Changing World – Germany and the Global South”
The countries of the so-called Global South are gaining increasing strategic importance due to their demographic development, natural resources, and their key role in future technologies. Global Perspectives has therefore established an expert commission. It was chaired by former Federal Minister of Defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. In May 2025, the commission published its final report, with recommendations for action regarding Germany’s relations with the Global South in times of geopolitical shifts.
Featured Program
Africa is building its own capacity in health research, diagnostics, and vaccine production. This is creating new avenues for cooperation with Europe on health security.
We brought together policymakers and experts at the German Bundestag to discuss how Germany can strengthen Defense, Diplomacy, and Development as equal pillars of its foreign and security policy.
The impacts of climate change are being felt around the world. At the same time, there are reasons for hope. Together with Dr. Ani Dasgupta, we explored why the climate crisis calls for more optimism.
Health security in Europe and Africa is closely interconnected. We discussed stronger collaboration through investment in local production, health equity biotechnology, research, and innovation.
Africa is emerging as a major hub for innovation and artificial intelligence. With leading African voices from Big Tech, academia, and innovation, we highlighted AI innovation across the continent.
Climate policy is security policy. We discussed how Europe can work with countries in the Global South to implement concrete measures that benefit both sides.
At the launch of the Alliance for Integrated Security, we discussed the current geopolitical challenges and identified potential areas of cooperation between Germany and the Global South.
Europe’s access to critical minerals in Africa depends crucially on stronger private sector engagement. We have now taken the recommendations further.
In times of limited resources and geopolitical tension, multilateral institutions can maximize the impact of existing development funding.
Funding cuts are putting health systems across Africa under pressure. Collaboration with Germany and Europe can help strengthen healthcare in the long term.
Publications
No continent can safeguard its health security alone. Shared health security is therefore a matter of mutual interest. The action recommendations of the tenth conference.
This interview publication reviews the effects of recent cuts in reproductive health, presents practical options for funding and service delivery, and offers guidance for policymakers and investors.
Africa’s critical minerals are essential to Europe’s future, playing a significant role in the green transition and industrial competitiveness. The Follow-Up to the 9th edition of the Roundtable.
This paper explores how Africa can add value to its critical minerals, boost local processing, and drive green industrialization while strengthening regional and global supply chains.
Amid shifting global dynamics, investing in Africa’s strengths in renewable energy and climate action is more urgent than ever. The action recommendations of the eighth conference.
The Commission “A Changing World – Germany and the Global South” presents its recommendations as a basis for addressing key strategic decisions facing Germany today.
The Commission "A Changing World - Germany and the Global South", chaired by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, presents its first impulses ahead of the German federal elections in 2025.
With data emerging as the key driver of future economic power, Africa's digital transformation is critical and urgent. The action recommendations of the seventh conference.
The distribution of power in the international system is changing. We interviewed 10 experts from the so-called 'Global South' to get their insight into their perception of Germany's role.
The African continent has the potential to become the global agriculture powerhouse. The action recommendations of the sixth conference.