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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10688
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) acp

Grace period needed for satisfactory EPAs

Brussels, 13/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - A little flexibility - that is what the European Parliament asked of the European Commission when it called on it, in Strasbourg on Thursday 13 September, to grant struggling ACP (African/Caribbean/Pacific) countries a grace period for negotiating an economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the EU. Those countries will therefore have two more years for ratifying that progressive and asymmetrical trade liberalisation agreement before the decision is...

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