No consensus has emerged from the EU Council on the structure that the renewed partnership between the EU and the 78 countries of Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) will take after 2020, when the Cotonou Agreement expires (an agreement that was signed for 20 years between the two sides in 2000).
The European ministers or member state ambassadors to the EU, who took part in the Foreign Affairs Council (Development format) in Brussels on Monday 28 November, formulated general remarks,...