Vol 51 No 22 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Trade talk troubles 5th November 2010 The EU’s obstinacy over trade concessions to Africa is encouraging frustrated governments to turn increasingly to Asia The partners are not equal in the negotiations for Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) on ‘free trade’ between the European Union and the 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)...
Vol 51 No 22 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Pushing Europe towards African farms 5th November 2010 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...
Vol 51 No 22 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Complex architecture but no deal 5th November 2010 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...