1. A GUIDED CHANGE IN THE MENTALITY OF “THE WHOLE-OF-SOCIETY”. Theme: “Africa is not what you think it is”.  Certainly in Europe but as well in Africa (“Entrepreneur dare to share your dream with international partners”).
2. INDUSTRIALISATION vs A thousand Africa-Europe partnerships of well-established industrial SMEs are driving a breakthrough in the modern industrialisation of African manufacturing, creating 20 million decent jobs a year and preventing coups, conflicts, antiwestern ressentiments and forced migration.

As long as the asymmetry in prosperity between Europe and Africa persists, it remains unlikely that legal migration, fences, pushbacks, dispersal of migrants across Europe, reception in North Africa, silencing of smugglers and an adequate return policy will be enough to prevent hundreds of millions of young Africans from risking their lives in the Mediterranean Sea or in the Atlantic Ocean in search of a decent life in Europe. It is in Europe's interest that neighbouring Africa, which will soon account for a quarter of the world's population, urgently provides jobs for its ten million young people who enter the labour market every year, thanks to the local transformation of its natural resources. Europe should refrain from calling on Africa mainly as a source of natural resources, including climate-strategic ones, or to fill vacancies.

Europe should prepare for it that, despite mega-subsidies for CO2 capture and storage, shareholder activists sooner rather than later force energy-guzzling industries (steel, fertilisers, aluminium, cement, ethylene, glass, …) to move to regions close to the source of abundant green electricity and green hydrogen and in the neighbourhood of future growth-markets.

When fully deployed, the Inga hydroelectric power plant, downstream the Congo River at 130 km from the deep-sea port of Banana, has a potential capacity of 44 GW (44 nuclear reactors), almost double the world's largest hydroelectric power plant, the Chinese 22.7 GW Three Gorges Dam. Inga makes use of differences in the level of the Congo River with less need for dams and less complex consequences for the population, geology, the environment and biodiversity than the Three Gorges Dam.

World population 2050:

 Africa 25%, Europe 7%

• Africa wants to add a more pronounced first pilar to the EU-Global Gateway programme: “Investments in manufacturing industrialisation” (even if digital transformation, green energy, transport, education and health will strengthen Africa’s advanced industrialisation);
• Africa complains that the Global Gateway has been launched without prior consultation with this continent;
• Africa fears that some corridors are closely linked to critical raw materials and green energy needed for the survival of industry in Europe;
• leading African scholars know that growing fast in Africa is imperative;

• An "empowered" Africa says to Europe: ‘Africa is endowed with an important educated middle class (2035: the same number of highly trained people in their prime of life as China), massive natural resources, also climate strategic resources, 50% of all renewable energy in the world (35% of the green hydrogen production potential at €2/kg), 60% of the world's agricultural land, the market of the future – 25% of the world's population – and nascent democracies with fairly strong institutions and unlocked industrial sites. For now, Europe has a head start with its practice of modern and complex international industrial value chains. Let's discuss how, for mutual benefit, Africa and Europe together, can transform our African natural resources into exportable products, create every year ten million formal jobs in Africa, prevent inequalities, conflicts, forced migration and global warming. Africa's advanced manufacturing industrialisation will accelerate the creation of the world's largest AfCFTA free trade area, a huge market, also for innovative European products and services with high added value. Africa and Europe, we know and understand each other, let's get to work urgently’.