{"id":570,"date":"2024-01-21T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirco.gov.za\/paris\/?page_id=570"},"modified":"2025-01-31T21:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:21:53","slug":"rsa-europe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dirco.gov.za\/paris\/rsa-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"RSA-Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"570\" class=\"elementor elementor-570\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"aux-parallax-section elementor-element elementor-element-3513625 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3513625\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a626c2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7a626c2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7645541 elementor-widget elementor-widget-hfe-breadcrumbs-widget\" data-id=\"7645541\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"hfe-breadcrumbs-widget.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"><ul class=\"hfe-breadcrumbs hfe-breadcrumbs-show-home\"><li class=\"hfe-breadcrumbs-item hfe-breadcrumbs-first\"><span class=\"hfe-breadcrumbs-home-icon\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dirco.gov.za\/paris\"><span class=\"hfe-breadcrumbs-text\">Home<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2508eef elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2508eef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>The EU remains a key strategic region for South Africa and a prominent dialogue partner from the global North.<\/div><div>Relations with the EU are structured in accordance with the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement, whereas trade relations are governed by the SADC-EU EPA. The South Africa-EU Strategic Partnership is the only one of its kind that the EU has with an African country, and one of only 10 globally.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/>The strategic partnership expanded the scope of the interaction beyond trade issues, to incorporate a much wider scope of cooperation with structured bilateral mechanisms and high-level meetings (summit, ministerial political dialogue, SOM and inter-parliamentary meetings) to support South Africa\u2019s national, regional, continental, and global priorities and programmes. The JCC, co-chaired by the DG of the DIRCO and the EU counterpart, covers over twenty sectoral policy dialogues, including diverse issues such as development cooperation, science and technology, space, migration, health, trade, education and skills development, peace and security, and human rights.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>The EU is South Africa\u2019s largest trading partner, as a block of 27 member states, and largest foreign investor, representing the majority of total FDI stocks in the country. 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