Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are still highly anti-development, despite European Union promises to the contrary. It is thus imperative for poor African countries to stand their grand and reject signing any such deals with the EU, *El Hadji Diouf states in an interview with IPS.

The contentious trade deals known as the EPAs will, in their current form, not do African countries any good as they still do not
take those countries' development needs into consideration, despite such an undertaking by the European Union. African states therefore need more time to negotiate and to implement pro-development measures to ameliorate the detrimental effects of trade liberalisation. They should also be allowed to protect their economies where necessary.

It is a "million dollar question" why African LDCs would enter into economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the EU as what remains of especially their agricultural markets will be overrun with subsidised European produce.

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