European Union
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Found 20 articles.
- Vol 46 No 14
- 08/07/2005
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 pri...
- Vol 46 No 11
- 27/05/2005
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, E...
- Vol 45 No 15
- 21/07/2004
Talking, at least
Amid the gloom around the Great Lakes, reviving the Communauté Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs (CEPGL) can do no harm and might do good. The Community, out of action since the Rwandan disaster of 1994, brings together Belgium's former coloni...
- Vol 45 No 3
- 04/02/2004
Replaying the aid game
Transforming Europe means changing its post-colonial trade relations too
- Vol 44 No 22
- 07/11/2003
Money, perhaps
The European Commission proposes to spend 250 million euros to back peacekeeping operations in Africa and European Union ministers will soon decide whether to go ahead. This was foreshadowed by Poul Nielson, the Danish European Development Commissioner, s...
- Vol 44 No 15
- 25/07/2003
A can of subsidised worms
Europe is offering reforms to its restrictive farm policies, but Africans fear footing the bill
- Vol 44 No 15
- 25/07/2003
Who loses?
While some developing countries, such as competitive wheat and beef exporters like Argentina, would like the Common Agricultural Policy reform to be intensified, many African agricultultural exporters are worried. The European Commission is preparing new ...
- Vol 43 No 24
- 06/12/2002
Bad governance
Mired for years in war, human rights abuses and shady electoral practices, the regime of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso has received a boost from Brussels.
- Vol 41 No 4
- 18/02/2000
Fudge all round
Finding a suitable name was the toughest job behind the 11 February announcement of a Europe-Africa summit in Cairo on 2-3 April. Portugal holds the European Union's six-monthly rotating presidency and its Foreign Minister, Jaime Gama, fulfilled an old am...
- Vol 40 No 25
- 17/12/1999
Brussels dawn
It was dawn in Brussels on 9 December when ministers from the European Union and the African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) nations wearily ended their negotiations. They had failed to agree on a text to replace the latest Lomé Convention, which expi...
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