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Colonialism’s new clothes: The EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements with Africa
22-Aug-2017 GRAIN
Though not highly publicised, the EPA has faced continued opposition from across the ACP countries, not least because of its devastating effect on small scale farmers. A new report from GRAIN goes into the details in Africa.
Gambia to sign free trade deal with EU
19-Aug-2017 The Point
The Gambia government and European Union have restarted the process of signing a free trade deal, dubbed Economic Partnership Agreement – EU’s flagship trade agreement.
Namibia to sign trade related facility financing agreement
17-Jul-2017 News Ghana
Namibia will soon sign the Trade Related Facility Financing Agreement with the SADC Secretariat to enable the country to develop a plan for implementing the EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
Cameroon: Economic partnership agreement with EU reduces customs revenue
23-Jun-2017 Cameroon Concord
Though government overlooks at the 600 million lose, economists say it is not healthy for the country’s economy which is dangling at the moment and hope to emerge by 2035.
Interview with Yvonne Takang
16-Jun-2017 bilaterals.org
Yvonne Takang has been campaigning and lobbying against Economic Partnership Agreements in Cameroon at the Association Citoyenne de Défense des Intérêts Collectifs
Nigeria: Trade negotiation office to advise govt on how to resolve EPA challenge
10-Jun-2017 All Africa
"We have looked at the agreement and we believe that the agreements are situated in the 19th century and we are now in the 21st century," Nigerian govt claims
It’s madness!
30-May-2017 Barbados Today
Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society knocks EPA and other trade agreements.
Nigeria’s trade dilemma
29-May-2017 All Africa
To survive and grow its economy, Nigeria’s best option might be to protect its infant industries and grow them to a point where it can comfortably play on the grand waters of international trade. Until then, the EPA might be a right step in the wrong direction.
EAC not to force members to sign EU trade deal
22-May-2017 Xinhua
Leaders of the East African Community (EAC) agreed not to force member states to sign the EAC-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
SA and UK start making plans for post-Brexit trade
18-May-2017 Business Day
Nations agree in principle to implement interim arrangement based on existing EU partnership deal.
European Union woos Tanzania to sign trade deal
15-May-2017 The East African
The European Union has invited the government of Tanzania for dialogue over the Economic Partnership Agreement impasse that has threatened to derail the trade pact between the bloc and the East African Community member countries.
MAN cautions Fed Govt on EPA
2-May-2017 The Nation
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has again cautioned the Federal Government to be wary of the Economic Community of West African States – European Union Economic Partnership Agreement.
The huge dumping of extra-EU exports of dairy products and to the EPAs of West Africa, SADC, CEMAC and EAC in 2016
25-Apr-2017 SOL
The EU has been pressuring the ACP countries (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) to sign and implement EPAs that would be destructive for these countries.
«L’Afrique doit compter d’abord sur son propre marché intérieur»
25-Apr-2017 Sud Quotidien
Une zone de libre échange ne peut être une politique qui favorise l’industrialisation de l’Afrique. Et, le vrai problème de l’Afrique, c’est le manque d’industrialisation, selon El Hadji Alioune Diouf, expert en commerce international.
East Africa: UN body warns region against signing trade deal with EU
24-Apr-2017 All Africa
The report says that if the EPA is signed, local industries will struggle to withstand competitive pressures from EU firms, while the region will be stuck in its position as a low value-added commodity exporter.
MEPs in Ghana and Ivory Coast to monitor EPA implementation
19-Apr-2017 EurActiv
MEPs from the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee are in West Africa this week, to monitor the implementation of Economic Partnership Agreements.
ACP countries to negotiate as a unified entity with EU
12-Apr-2017 ACP Secretariat
Seventy-nine countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific are preparing to negotiate a major partnership framework with the European Union which will set directions for trade relations.
EU-Tanzania seal $205m investment deal
12-Apr-2017 African Business Magazine
The two sides have managed to separate the grant from their long-running dispute over the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement, media have been told.
EPA plan to be reset
10-Apr-2017 Nation News
Barbados is resetting its implementation strategy of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union as Britain prepares to exit the EU.
“The most remarkable rejection of free trade you’ve never heard of”
1-Apr-2017 The Mint
Africans are insisting on actual economic development which is leaving European trade negotiators exasperated. Rick Rowden explains why their stand is historic and right.