EPAs
Update on EU-West Africa EPA negotiations
Technical and Senior Official EPA negotiation meetings between the EC and West Africa took place in Abuja (ECOWAS Commission building) on 17-19 and 20 June. The meetings were very constructive and allowed the Parties to progress well on several aspects of the negotiation.
Source DG Trade EU Commission
Partnership or Power Play?
How Europe should bring development into its trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries
Oxfam Briefing Paper
Europe is negotiating new trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries. A true partnership in trade could radically transform the lives of one-third of all people living in poverty, providing farmers and small businesses with sustainable incomes and workers with decent jobs. But Europe is choosing power politics over partnership. The deals currently on the table will strip ACP countries of important policy tools they need in order to develop. They will fracture regional integration, exacerbate poverty and make it harder for countries to break away from commodity dependence. Despite massive pressure, many ACP countries are holding out for a fair deal. Europe needs to rethink, and agree to change course. Ultimately, it is in its own interests to do so.
Partnership_or_Powerplay.pdf 753.36 kB
How to Balance the Outcomes of the Economic Partnership Agreements for Sub-Saharan African Economies?
ROMAIN PEREZ AND STEPHEN NJUGUNA KARINGI
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
The World Economy (2007)
EPA paper.pdf 131.28 kB
Los Acuerdos de Asociación Económica (EPAs) de la Unión Europea con África Subsahariana. Temas, actores, debates y recomendaciones para España. (Ainhoa Marín Egoscozábal)
Este trabajo realiza una revisión de los principales elementos a discusión en las negociaciones, así como de los principales enfoques aparecidos a lo largo del proceso de negociación y valoración de los EPAs. Cotonú es parte de una nueva estrategia de asociación de la UE con los países en desarrollo, que apoya muchas de las expectativas de desarrollo en el comercio y otros aspectos relacionados con el comercio, la inversión y la ayuda al desarrollo. La posición española en este nuevo contexto, ha de responder a la creciente importancia que España está concediendo al continente, y debe además afrontar sin complejos ni retardos, algunas incoherencias que deslegitiman el papel y posibilidades de España como actor de relevancia en la UE y en su contribución al desarrollo humano de los países de África Subsahariana.
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