Interview with Marc Maes, 11.11.11, Coalition of Flemish North South Movement, for Fighting FTAs
An 20-minute interview with Marc Maes, of the Belgian development organization 11.11.11, concerning the push to establish European bilateral and regional trade agreements in the Caribbean, the Pacific, West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa and Eastern Africa. This interview outlines the unbalance of power relations within the context of bilateral trade negotiations driven by the European Union, while addressing the contemporary push toward bilateral trade accords within the context of a long history of the development of bilateral trade accords or economic partnership agreements which in essence were essential to the formation of the European Union. — Stefan Christoff
