Negotiations to deepen the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and five of the 11 countries in the ACP Group's Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region were launched on Wednesday 2 October in Mauritius, the European Commission announced the same day.
The countries concerned, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, the Seychelles and Zimbabwe, have declared their readiness to move beyond trade in goods to which the current EPA is limited.
This EPA, concluded at the end of 2007, has...