The EU says it will continue to support the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) planned to launch on 1 January but that EU-Africa trade must be based around the unloved Economic Partnership Agreements a legacy of Peter Mandelson's tenure as EU Trade Commissioner over a decade ago (AC Vol 61 No 3 Revenues and resources are the key)...
From his grandiose office next to the United States Embassy in London Calil ran an unrivalled social network boasting a comprehensive cast of ministers including Lord Mandelson bankers businessmen advertising tycoons and public relations gurus such as Lord Tim Bell...
Since 2007 the EU’s three successive trade commissioners Peter Mandelson Catherine Ashton and now Karel de Gucht have made deals with as many non-African partners as they could...
Some countries such as Ghana were pressed into signing EPAs last year by Louis Michel then EU Development Commissioner and Peter Mandelson then at Trade...
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Rothschild entertained Seif at his Corfu villa this summer in the same party as UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson...
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has overseen the signing of 'goods only' agreements with Ghana Côte d'Ivoire Mauritius Madagascar Comoros Seychelles Zimbabwe Botswana Lesotho Namibia Swaziland and Mozambique...
Europe's Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson wants freer trade to come gradually with Europe opening its markets faster than its African partners...
Sithanen flew to Brussels in July and met the EU's Development and Trade Commissioners Louis Michel and Peter Mandelson to lobby for more aid and explain his reforms to approving EU officials...
No claim was made against three other Britons whose complicity has been alleged: Mark Thatcher Jeffrey Archer and Peter Mandelson...
The new EU Trade Commissioner (and Britain's New Labour godfather) Peter Mandelson insisted EPAs were compatible with the 'antipoverty strategy' in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals: they would support regional integration widen access to European markets and help provide 'a stable and predictable framework for investors'...
