Ghana: EPAs Remain Roadmap for Africa's Development - EU

13 February 2006

Accra — The European Union is still insisting that the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) whose implementation it is currently negotiating with four sub-regional groupings in Sub-Saharan Africa remain the only option for Africa's development.

The EU insists that for Africa to move from its current share of global trade of 2% to 8% in the next ten years, Africa has to be fully integrated into the global trading system and that it is only when the regional groupings accept to implement the EPAs that this could be possible.

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