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EU and five Eastern and Southern African countries kick off negotiations to deepen trade relations
20-Jan-2020 EIN
The EU concluded the first round of negotiations to deepen the existing Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with five Eastern and Southern Africa partners.
Seychelles hosts meeting with EU, African states on economic partnership
16-Jan-2020 Seychelles News Agency
Seychelles is for the first time hosting negotiations between the European Union and the Eastern Southern African States that are focusing on the implementation of an interim economic partnership.
European Union to give Seychelles 10 million euros to support economic partnership agreement
5-Dec-2019 Seychelles News Agency
The objectives of the agreement are to improve Seychelles’ capacity to manage and implement the current EPA.
Africa relations are ‘not equal’, leaders warn EU
4-Dec-2019 Euractiv
African political and business leaders complained that trade deals are skewed in favour of Europe, preventing them from building up domestic processing industries.
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’.
France: First supplier of imported products under Cameroon’s economic partnership with the EU
18-Oct-2019 Business in Cameroon
France is the first of four main suppliers for products imported to Cameroon under the economic partnership agreement with the European Union.
SACU, Mozambique and UK sign EPA agreement
14-Oct-2019 Namibia Economist
The Trade Ministers from the SACU Member States, Mozambique and the United Kingdom signed the economic partnership agreement.
The EU and Solomon islands step up cooperation
8-Oct-2019 Solomon Times
EU official welcomed Solomon Islands’ interest in joining the existing Economic Partnership Agreement.
EU launches talks on new African trade pact
3-Oct-2019 Euractiv
The new agreement will hopefully cover ‘trade-related areas, such as services, investment, technical barriers to trade, intellectual property rights as well as trade and sustainable development,’ says EU Commission.
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.
Pres. Weah signs several acts into law
20-Sep-2019 Liberian Observer
The President signed the act ratifying the Economic Partnership Agreement between West African States, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union and its members.
EAC keeps Europe guessing two months to crucial meeting
16-Sep-2019 The East African
Two months to the East African Community’s Summit, partner states are keeping the European Union guessing over the controversial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) whose signing stalled in 2016.
UK, Sacu strike post Brexit trade deal
12-Sep-2019 The Namibian
The UK has initiated an economic partnership agreement with the Southern African Customs Union and Mozambique (Sacu+M) that will allow business to keep trading freely after Brexit.
Trade impasse as EU seeks deal with entire EAC bloc
15-Jul-2019 The East African
The EAC negotiated and concluded a bilateral trade agreement with the EU as a bloc, and it must remain as such, say sources at the European Commission.
EU-ACP Cotonou successor faces one year delay
20-May-2019 Euractiv
Progress has been painfully slow on a pact between the EU and the 79 countries in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) community, and few officials now believe the successor deal will be concluded in time to come into force in January 2020.
Pacific CSO position on post Cotonou agreement
17-May-2019 PIANGO
Despite the failures of the EPA to deliver real development to Pacific countries it looks as though the European Union will once again, through the Post Cotonou Agreement, push for enhanced and undistorted access for European investments to Pacific resources.
UK negotiates a post-Brexit EPA with Cameroon
14-May-2019 Business in Cameroon
The validation of a report on the trade impact of the bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Cameroon and the United Kingdom is the first step before the actual start of negotiations.
Senegal: No to Auchan and any form of recolonization
6-May-2019 Billets d’Afrique
Quite a few Senegalese people are fed up with the recolonization of their country by French capitalism. They have gathered among several citizen groups to resist it.
Rein in dairy exports to our continent: African farmers to EU
17-Apr-2019 Down to Earth
African dairy farmers protested outside the European Union HQ to demand that they don’t over-produce milk and then flood African markets.