03/03/2023 (Agence Europe) – The Post-Cotonou Partnership Agreement between the EU and the organisation of ACP States has still not been signed by the EU due to a Hungarian reservation (see EUROPE 13071/8, 13055/8), warned, on Thursday 2 March, the Co-Presidents of the ACP-EU Parliamentary Assembly (JPA), Carlos Zorrinho (S&D, Portuguese) and Ana Rita Sithole (Mozambique MP), ahead of the 43rd JPA session scheduled for the end of June. “The Cotonou Agreement has been extended several times. The latest extension will expire at the end of June 2023, which would result in a legal vacuum and thus make it impossible for the JPA to meet. Time is running out. With one EU Member State still refusing to accept the new agreement, we call on the EU Council and the Swedish EU Council Presidency to make every effort to sign the new agreement quickly”, they said in a statement released on Friday 3 March. (AN)