ISDS Case Map
ACP
Asia, Caribbean, Pacific Group
A quite amazing event took place in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on August 29 and 30. Two hundred representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from China and 19 African countries held a China-Africa People's Forum.
ACP–EU relations have been in existence for quite a while but what great gains has it achieved, for at least one of its small islands member in the Pacific, Palau, asks its former Vice President, Sandra Pierantozzi.
On May 9, the European Community celebrated Europe Day as one of the symbols designed to foster unity among Europeans.
This paper from ICTSD sets out a common vision on issues that could constitute sanitary, phytosanitary and technical barriers in EPAs and investigates how abusive use of these provisions could be an obstacle to market access.
As you may be well aware, Namibia has yet to sign the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU). It is gratifying to see the EU, in the face of Namibian insistence, eventually shifting and being prepared to further listen to Namibia, negotiating and thrashing out Namibia’s reservations about the contents of the IEPA.
As the East African Community Ministers converge in the Tanzanian capital of Dar-es-Salaam with a possibility of signing the long awaited Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), Civil Society Organisations are still thinking otherwise.
The East African Legislative Assembly wants member states to delay the signing of new economic partnership deals with Europe until outstanding issues are resolved.
A new study shows that the effects of EPAs - under which African, Caribbean and Pacific countries are expected to offer duty-free access to 'substantially all' EU imports - will be felt differently by women and men in their roles as producers, consumers and users of services.
The European Union, along with powers like the USA and Japan, has long had a policy of establishing economic relations with former colonies that impose the will of imperialism on the economic development of these countries. Supposedly instruments designed for “poverty alleviation”; in reality their main purpose is to open the markets of these poorer countries to goods flowing in from the advanced capitalist nations.
Le 27 septembre 2009 marque le 7ème anniversaire du lancement des négociations des Accords de partenariat économique (APE). Depuis 2004, les organisations de la société civile de l’Union européenne (UE) et des pays d’Afrique des Caraïbes et du Pacifique (ACP) ont intitulé cette journée « Journée mondiale d’action contre les APE » pour protester contre la démarche européenne sur les APE.
