17/12/2019 (Agence Europe) – With 534 votes in favour, 145 against and 13 abstentions, MEPs approved, on Tuesday 17 December, in plenary session in Strasbourg, the Solomon Islands' accession to the EU's interim Partnership Agreement with the Pacific States. This Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), signed more than a decade ago and provisionally applied by Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Samoa, sets out the modalities for the accession of other Pacific Island States. Solomon Islands' EPA...