EXTERNAL ACTION / Acp

New round of negotiations for post-Cotonou Agreement and new threat of non-ratification by European Parliament

Brussels, 03/12/2020 (Agence Europe)

This round of negotiations on the future post-Cotonou Partnership Agreement between the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the EU—which opened on the evening of Thursday, 3 December, under the guidance of European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen and Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs Robert Dussey—may be the last, as is hoped by the two chief negotiators (see EUROPE B12608A17 and B12506A9). But the threat of the...