The EU and the AU want to strengthen their relations and increase climate investments.

Nairobi, Sep 8 (EFE).- The president of the African Union (AU) Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, met with the executive vice-president of the European Commission (EC), Teresa Ribera of Spain, and both reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening the relationship between the AU and the European Union (EU), as well as their support for multilateralism and increased investment in adaptation to the climate crisis.

According to the pan-African organization late Sunday, the community's vice president for a clean, fair, and competitive transition met with Youssouf on the sidelines of the second Africa-CARICOM (Caribbean Community) summit, which was held Sunday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

The two leaders "exchanged views on Africa's climate and development priorities, fair trade, and preparations for the AU-EU summit to be held in Luanda, Angola, in November," the AU said on social media.

"Both reaffirmed their commitment to multilateralism, to a deeper partnership between the AU and the EU, and to increased investment in climate adaptation," the organization added, a day before the start of the second Africa Climate Summit (ACS) on Monday, which Addis Ababa is hosting until Wednesday.

This meeting, co-organized this year by the AU and the Ethiopian government following its first edition in Nairobi in 2024, brings together African leaders to seek continental consensus on the climate crisis in one of the world's regions most affected by this challenge.

The EU will be represented in the ACS by Ribera, who is also the EC Competition Commissioner.

On the other hand, as reported by the EU Council last July, the seventh AU-Africa summit will be held in the capital of Angola—the country that holds the rotating presidency of the AU—on November 24 and 25 and will commemorate 25 years of partnership between the two blocs.

The meeting will seek to strengthen cooperation in key areas such as peace and security, economic integration, trade, multilateralism, green development, digitalization, migration, mobility, and human development.