The 28 European development ministers will take stock in Brussels on Tuesday 22 May of progress on the draft negotiating mandate on the post-2020 partnership between the EU and the 79 countries of the ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) group, which will replace the Cotonou Agreement when it expires in February 2020.
This discussion is not expected to be more than an update, the matter not even having been discussed by the member state ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) when they met last week, to...