EXTERNAL ACTION / Pacific

Solomon Islands to join Economic Partnership Agreement between EU and Pacific countries

Brussels, 17/02/2020 (Agence Europe)

The Council of the EU adopted, on Monday 17 February, the decision on the accession of the Solomon Islands, a small island developing state, to the EU-Pacific States Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

The decision was adopted without debate in the margins of the meeting of European Ministers for European Affairs (General Affairs Council).

This EPA, negotiated under the Cotonou Agreement between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), enshrines the...