Brussels, 26/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - The negotiation of economic partnership agreements (EPAs) is largely in a situation of stalemate. The ACP countries feel abandoned by the European Union which they reproach with wanting to force them to sign agreements that would be detrimental to their development (see EUROPE 10027). It is in this context that the French secretaries of state for foreign trade and cooperation, Anne-Marie Idrac and Alain Joyandet, recently wrote to the Swedish EU...