South Africa-EU summit centers on boosting trade and diplomatic ties as both feel Trump’s impact
Associated PressCAPE TOWN, South Africa — Senior European Union officials were in South Africa for a summit Thursday with President Cyril Ramaphosa that center on bolstering trade and diplomatic ties as both feel the impact of the Trump administration’s confrontational foreign policy. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa will meet with Ramaphosa at his Cape Town office in the first EU-South Africa summit since 2018. Von der Leyen’s visit will also likely reemphasize the EU’s support for South Africa’s presidency of the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations this year, another area where the U.S. has criticized South Africa while boycotting some early G20 meetings. The EU said that von der Leyen would use the meeting in South Africa to announce a new investment package that uses public and private grants and loans to finance green energy projects in South Africa, improve transport infrastructure like railways and ports, and strengthen its vaccine production capacity.
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