AFRICA-EUROPE ECONOMIC COOPERATION Using the Opportunities for Reorientation Robert Kappel May 2020 The paper examines the current status of EU-African economic relations and the EU’s Joint Communication »Towards a Comprehensive Strategy with Africa«(CSA) in this pivotal year 2020. The renewal between the Eu­ropean Union and the Afri­can continent has been over­shadowed by the global coro­navirus crisis. The consequen­­ces ­of the pandemic for the African continent are so far­reaching that economic coop­eration between Africa and the EU must be readjusted. The CSA needs to be funda­mentally revised above all to overcome the asymmetrical dependence and power rela­tions between Africa and the European Union.