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EU-Kenya business forum: Ruto pushes for EU-EAC economic partnership deal
24-Feb-2023 The North Africa Post
The first European Union-Kenya Business Forum concluded on Wednesday Feb.22 in capital, Nairobi, with Kenya’s William Ruto urging the EU to conclude economic partnership deal with the East African Community (EAC) regional bloc.
Macron puts EU deal with Africa, Caribbean, Pacific on death watch
14-Feb-2023 Devex
It took one sentence in the wee hours of Friday morning for Emmanuel Macron to put more than seven years of work by the European Commission and others in mortal jeopardy.
Post-Cotonou deal in danger as concerns grow over ratification delay
4-Nov-2022 Euractiv
The political agreement between the EU and the 79-member African, Caribbean and Pacific community is at growing risk of collapse and remains unratified, eighteen months after been concluded by EU and ACP negotiators.
Urgent mobilisation against the signing of the Samoa Agreement to succeed the Cotonou Agreement
27-Aug-2021 SOL
The agreement was concluded between the chief negotiators (foreign or trade ministers) in December 2020 and initialled on 15 April 2021 in Samoa.
Successor to EU-Africa Cotonou treaty marks ‘turning point’, says EU
22-Apr-2021 Euractiv
The EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific Community on Thursday (15 April) finalised the successor to the Cotonou agreement, bringing a close to two and a half years of negotiations and repeated delays.
EU-ACP "Post-Cotonou" agreement (inialled text, Apr. 2021)
19-Apr-2021 European Commission
Post-Cotonou: Negotiators reach a political deal on a new EU/Africa-Caribbean-Pacific partnership agreement
4-Dec-2020 European Commission
The chief negotiators from the EU and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) reached a political deal on the text for a new partnership agreement that will succeed the Cotonou Agreement.
EPAs, the height of the European Commission’s foolishness in perpetuating the colonisation of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by shooting itself in the foot
20-Nov-2020 SOL
The imposition of Economic Partnership Agreements to ACP countries, where 94% of the population is concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, is based on a series of 12 lies.
Post-Cotonou deal edges closer to the finish line
3-Sep-2020 Euractiv
The long-delayed successor to the Cotonou Agreement between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) community appears to be approaching the finish line with a ‘99%’ chance of success this year, according to both sides.
EU-ACP post-Cotonou agreement: draft text (June 2020)
29-Jun-2020
ACP-EU post-Cotonou negotiations: Towards the finish line
17-Jun-2020 Jamaica Gleaner
Mobility and migration is proving a difficult issue between the EU, African and Caribbean countries. Development cooperation is yet to be treated in these negotiations.
EU-Africa relations in a post-COVID world
15-Jun-2020 Euractiv
Negotiators from the Commission and the African, Caribbean and Pacific community confirmed that talks on a trade and political cooperation deal to replace the twenty-year-old Cotonou Agreement were close to completion.
After being delayed by Covid-19, ACP-EU talks finally enter their last stage
10-Jun-2020 Togo First
The two parties commenced in Brussels technical discussions ahead of negotiations.
EU-ACP post-Cotonou agreement: draft text (Mar 2020)
27-May-2020
New EU negotiating mandate for trade agreements with ACP countries turns EPAs into CETAs
7-Feb-2020 bilaterals.org
The new mandate is much more far-reaching than the 2002 version as it incorporates everything that the EU has been pushing in its FTAs since CETA including ISDS, digital trade, far reaching IPR.
EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: Directives for the negotiations (Dec 2019)
7-Feb-2020
Interview with Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG)
14-Nov-2019 bilaterals.org
In this interview, we discuss the PACER+ trade deal, the post Cotonou talks with the EU and the influence of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Pacific region.
Africa offers a test to von der Leyen’s ‘geopolitical Commission’
7-Nov-2019 Euractiv
The African Union Commission’s high representative on Cotonou has warned that keeping the ACP framework will make it harder for the EU to agree on a ‘continent-to-continent instrument’.
ACP-EU partnership: economic priorities determined
1-Oct-2019 Government Europa
Negotiators from the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries met at the United Nations to determine the future of the ACP-EU partnership.
Kenya ties on the table
9-Aug-2019 Nation News
Barbados is looking to enter into a double taxation agreement and a bilateral investment treaty with Kenya.