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The European Union has managed to persuade the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states to open negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), due to bring in free trade by 2008 in harmonisation with the World Trade Organisation. However, Eurocrats will have to confront the anti-globalisation movement: one of its slogans is 'Stop EPAs!'.

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Mali, Britain, Peter Mandelson, Ghana, Senegal, Zimbabwe, French, Aminata Traoré, Ibrahim Coulibaly, Germany, Sierra Leone, Mike Tyson, Glenys Kinnock, Cameroonian, Thailand, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine

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