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EU woos Nigeria with N1.4tn EPA offer
20-Jun-2016 Nigeria Today
The European Union has asked Nigeria to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement with attractive offers including a €6.5bn (about N1.4tn) Development Programme.
EU, six African countries sign EPA
13-Jun-2016 Daily Trust
The European Union and six countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
Brussels to end preferential trade access for uncooperative African countries
10-Jun-2016 EurActiv
The EU plans to raise the pressure on six African countries to implement controversial free trade agreements by putting an end to their preferential access to the EU market.
The West Africa-EU Economic Partnership Agreement is absurd
10-Jun-2016 SOL
This is a way of thinking as absurd as that consisting for a poultry producer to open the henhouse gate to allow the fox to test the poultry resistance capacity.
The EPA would liberalize the majority of EU agricultural exports to West Africa
10-Jun-2016 SOL
This document is limited to assessing the importance of the liberalization of agricultural imports in the EU-West Africa (WA) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) given the crucial nature of these products for WA.
Perpetuating the interim EPAs of Ivory Coast and Ghana would be meaningless
10-Jun-2016 SOL
There is a rumour that, if Nigeria’s stance not to sign the regional EPA is definitive so that the EPA would be buried, DG trade is contemplating to perpetuate the interim EPAs of Ivory Coast and Ghana provided they would formally sign them.
EPA tariff to be aligned
1-Jun-2016 Chronicle
THE government of Zimbabwe is working on putting in place the requisite legal framework that will see the country fully implementing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.
Four impact studies of the West Africa EPA that the EU Commission does not want you to see
20-May-2016 SOL
bilaterals.org has received four impact studies concerning the EU-West Africa EPA and requested Jacques Berthelot to provide a comment on them.
Cracks appear in EU-ACP unity at Cotonou meeting in Dakar
6-May-2016 EurActiv
Dissent was heard at the high-level meeting in Dakar of the EU and the 79-member states of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group.
EU African EPAs in limbo
26-Apr-2016 Bordelex
The EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements with sub-Saharan countries inked a few years ago are not getting off the ground as African governments don’t like their EU-inspired rules on raw materials policies.
Making the case for a French “agricultural carve out”
14-Apr-2016 Libération
We need to reconstruct a law that takes into account the particularities of the agricultures that we want to preserve on the model of cultural exception.
Caribbean countries not fully satisfied with EPA accord
21-Mar-2016 Jamaica Observer
Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) countries say they are yet to “meaningfully reap the potential benefits” of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed with Europe in 2008.
Outlook for the EU-SADC economic partnership agreement
23-Feb-2016 Food Security Portal
New trade stemming from the EPA will not be very extensive, and any poverty reduction effects will also likely be quite small.
The European Union–West Africa economic partnership agreement
22-Feb-2016 IFPRI
The benefits of the EPA between the EU and WA’s countries appear small, if not negative for West African countries.
West Africa and EU prepare towards EPA implementation
18-Feb-2016 GNA
West Africa and the European Union continue to prepare for the implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreement — pending its signature by all member states — by putting together the necessary texts for the institutional bodies and instruments envisaged under the EPA, in order that it becomes operational immediately upon entering into force.
Namibia to finally sign EPA
11-Feb-2016 Star Africa
Namibia’s National Assembly Speaker Peter Katjavivi said the Southern Africa country is now set to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.
An assessment of the possible implications of the EAC-EU EPA on Kenyan agricultural sector and its compatibility with the WTO rules
9-Feb-2016 KHRC
The full implementation of EPA, may shift consumption away from local products, to EU goods.
Les traités de libre-échange sont des armes de destruction massive
8-Feb-2016 L’Observatoire des multinationales
De la décolonisation au Tafta
Reps to vet EPA with EU… lament textile industry collapse
29-Jan-2016 Business Day
House of Representatives call for caution in the implementation of the EPA between EU and Nigeria.
West Africa: EPA - U.S. $8.94 billion development package tears Ecowas apart
5-Jan-2016 All Africa
The negative effects of opening up 75 percent of ECOWAS markets, with its 300 million consumers, to Europe over a 20-year period, are legion and cut across all facets of the economic life of Africa.