Tag: EU-Africa relations

Willemien Viljoen, tralac researcher, discusses the current predicament facing the EAC states regarding the Economic Partnership Agreement to be signed with the EU After more than...

In preparing this paper, Stephen Lande and Dennis Matanda leverage their extensive first-hand experience with both the African Union and Africa’s regional economic communities. T...

Further delay in signing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will hamper East African Community partner states’ export to the European Union market, the East African Busines...

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the European Commission on 22 June 2016 adopted a Joint Communication, entitled “Elements for a n...

This development-oriented agreement is the first of its kind with an African region pursuing regional economic integration. The European Union and six countries of the Southern Af...

An analysis prepared by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade On 3 April 2014, Heads of State and Governments of Africa and of the European Union gathered at t...

It is a curious coincidence that, with the UK vote on membership of the European Union next month, the future of the bloc is uncertain when some in Africa lament the implementation...

This report has been prepared for the Formal Meeting of the World Trade Organisation Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures, 16-17 March 2016. CONTEXT The Europe-...

This “statistical portrait” 2015 edition presents a broad comparison between the situation of the European Union, including EFTA members and Candidate countries, and the Africa...

William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, discusses agricultural safeguards and South Africa’s impending transition from the TDCA to the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement The Inte...

Draft Opinion of the Committee on Development on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the West African States, ...

Cecilia Malmström, EU Trade Commissioner, visited Lagos, Nigeria on 5 November 2015, where she spoke at the EU-Nigeria Business Forum and meeting with government, business and civ...

William Mwanza, tralac Researcher, provides an update on the state of play in the EPA negotiations between the European Union and African regions An Economic Partnership Agreement...

The Commission is proposing a new trade and investment strategy for the European Union, entitled ‘Trade for All: Towards a more responsible trade and investment policy’. The n...

Fears that a slowing China will cause world trade to stagnate could be overstated, given European nations’ long-standing trade links with emerging markets (EMs) across Latin Amer...

ACP countries were required for the first time to negotiate reciprocal, though asymmetric trade agreements, with a major – and developed – trading partner, the EU, giving birth...

Over the decades, the EU’s development policies have been anchored in its partnership agreements with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries. These agreement...

The European Union (EU) has channelled 12.1 million euros (Sh1.26bn) to various players in Kenya’s export industry in a bid to save the ailing sector. The money is to be s...

Joint Civil Society Public Statement Today [14 April 2015] the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) wasted a ground-breaking opportunity to tackle the d...

South African delegates will soon be touring several European nations in a bid to clarify citrus black spot (CBS) inspection procedures, which are estimated to be squeezing more th...