Outline of presentation Introduction What are the Immerging issues The forums (Shopping Centres) for these issues Implication for Africa and the EU on these issues Should they Form part of the ACP-EU Framework Introduction The issues that have emerged...
ATN Consultative Seminar on Post-Cotonou Accra, Ghana, 20-22 March 2018 Marc Maes, 11.11.11, Belgium THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ And so has the EU: 1- New member states: 2000: 15 member states; 2004: 25; 2007: 27; 2013: 28 Have...
AFRICA TRADE NETWORK ACP Civil Society Seminar on Post-Cotonou, Accra, 20-22 March, 2018 introductory: ACP’s “(non-) mandate” not a draft directive for negotiations (compared to EC) remains to be adopted, hopefully at Lome Council of Ministers in May 2018...
AFRICA TRADE NETWORK ACP Civil Society Seminar on Post-Cotonou, Accra, 20-22 March, 2018 introductory: critical features and lessons of EPA experience content liberalisation deregulation protectionism (re) weaponization of aid process inherent asymmetry of power; reinforced by united-integrated versus fragmentation...
UNITE TO STOP EU RE-COLONISATION- STOP EPAs NOW! The 6th Summit of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States from September 30-October 3, 2008 in Accra, Ghana takes place when the evidence is mounting, right across the...