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  • Vol 45 No 15
  •  21st July 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 colonies,...

  • Vol 45 No 3
  •  4th February 2004

Replaying the aid game

Transforming Europe means changing its post-colonial trade relations too

  • Vol 44 No 22
  •  7th November 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
  •  25th July 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
  •  25th July 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
  •  6th December 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
  •  18th February 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
  •  17th December 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 expires...

  • Vol 39 No 20
  •  9th October 1998

Trading standards

Negotiations for the Lomé Convention’s successor opened in Brussels on 30 September. The deafening lack of publicity reflected the climate of doom: many see this as the end of the Lomé trade-aid package, originally considered so progressive.

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