Africa: EPAs Born of EU's Concern With China on Continent

26 February 2008

Cape Town — The European Union (EU) is concerned about competing with China for access to resources and markets in Africa, which partly explains its drive to hook African states into the trade deals called economic partnership agreements (EPAs).

According to Dr Rob Davies, South Africa's deputy minister of trade and industry, the EU is afraid that it will lose its foothold on the African continent and wants to prevent this at all cost.

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