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Vol 51 No 22
5th November 2010

Trade talk troubles

The EU’s obstinacy over trade concessions to Africa is encouraging frustrated governments to turn increasingly to Asia

Vol 51 No 22
5th November 2010

Pushing Europe towards African farms

Strong criticism has been levelled at European Union and Western companies for failing to match the pace of Asian investment in African agriculture. A new report published in London says agricultural subsidies paid to European farmers still tilt the marke...

Vol 51 No 22
5th November 2010

Complex architecture but no deal

Africa is larger, politically more varied and much poorer than the island states that constitute its colleagues in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) group. Like them, its relationship with the European Union is inherited from the colonial period but the...

Vol 50 No 12
12th June 2009

Banana skin

A row is growing between the African-Caribbean-Pacific countries and the European Union. On 29 May, ACP trade ministers accused the EU of sacrificing development to commerce. They asked for 500 million euros (US$698 mn.) in compensation for the EU’s propo...

Vol 50 No 3
6th February 2009

Ghana's chance

Ghana's Ambassador in Brussels, Nana Berna Kumi, is leading in an increasingly hard fought battle there for the post of Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of countries. It's an important time for the ACP, which has been locked ...

Vol 48 No 21
19th October 2007

Trading places

There is no agreement on revising Europe’s trade deal with Africa, so an agreement may be imposed

Vol 46 No 14
8th July 2005

No sugar daddy

As European politicians hugged rock stars and European citizens glowed with good will for Africa, African sugar producers were glum. On 22 June, the European Commission proposed slashing by 39 per cent over three years its subsidised domestic sugar price,...

Vol 46 No 11
27th May 2005

WMD

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, Euro...

Vol 45 No 14
9th July 2004

No preference

As global rules are renegotiated, Africa may get left behind again

Vol 45 No 3
4th February 2004

Replaying the aid game

Transforming Europe means changing its post-colonial trade relations too

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