TRADE WITH EUROPE- GOOD OR BAD FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES’ : AN EDUCATIONAL PROJECT ON EU-ACP TRADE.
The educational project “Trade with Europe-good or bad for developing countries?” targets students of secondary education (sixth form) and their teachers, providing a tool for students to explore the relationship between the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in ACP countries (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific).“FREE TRADE DISAGREEMENT – DOES THE MARKET REALLY CREATE DEVELOPMENT?”
A publication was edited by the Italian NGO Amici dei Popoli (ADP), within the framework of the project Partnership for Change.JOINT COUNCIL OF MINISTERS AGREE TO STRENGTHEN ACP-EU PARTNERSHIP
The ACP Council and the ACP-EU Council of Ministers meeting held in Burkina Faso from 17th-22nd June, have signed the revised ACP-EU Partnership Agreement aimed at eradicating poverty and supporting sustainable development and the gradual integration of the ACP states into the world economy.EU SETS NOVEMBER DEADLINE FOR NEW TRADE PACT
EU set a November deadline to conclude negotiations with East africa on EPA after the failure of the recent negotiations session held in Tanzania (Ed.)WEST AFRICA AND THE MITIGATION OF EPAs EFFECTS
ECOWAS Council Of Ministers adopted a regional industrial policy and endorsed CCM recommendations on EPA reaffirming the importance of a development-oriented approach to EPATOWARDS FULL EPA IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
EU and SADC EPA Group hold EPA negotiations in Brussels to move forward to reach comprehensive EPAs agreements, but Namibia is still reluctantPROMISES AND COMMITMENTS FROM EU-LAC SUMMIT
The Sixth Summit of the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was held in Madrid on 17th – 18th May 2010.EAC, EU LOCKED IN EPA NEGOTIATIONS
On the occasion of the third negotiations session between the East African Community (EAC) partner states and the European Commission (EC) on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) an awareness raising workshop was promoted (Ed.)WHY POOREST AFRICAN COUNTRIES SHOULD NOT SIGN THE EPAS
Isolda Agazzi interviews Dr EL HADJI DIOUF, expert on the economic partnership agreements (Part 2)EPAS TO AFFECT TRADE AMONG ACP NATIONS
Economist Kelvin Kamayoyo has said that trade amongst African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries is likely to be reduced as a result of trade diversion if the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are signed with the European Union (EU).MAKING TRADE PREFERENCE WORK FOR THE POOR
The US-based Center for Global Development has published a brief based on the final report of its Global Trade Preference Reform Working Group on the functioning of preferential trade arrangements.CIVIL SOCIETY HEARINGS TOWARDS THE SUMMIT ON MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Informal interactive hearings of the General Assembly with non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations and the private sector
Partnership for Change project has two thematic focus connected to the heart of development policies and the struggle against poverty.
MDGs and EPAs, central themes of the project, were indeed both created as development policies: the first one, with the aim of committing governments in the South and in the North on punctual development objectives to be reached by 2015, the second one, proposing economic agreements of free trade as an access point to development for many ACP countries.
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