The Council of the EU gave the green light on Thursday 27 May to the opening of negotiations for an EU-Angola agreement on investment facilitation. The decision to do so was adopted without debate, on the basis of a recommendation made by the European Commission last March.
This will be the first such agreement negotiated by the EU, stemming from the ongoing WTO negotiations on the Joint Initiative on Facilitation of Investment for Development.
“The goal of this agreement is to improve the...