On Thursday 27 April, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union held their fourth negotiating session on the regulation renewing the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP). The two sides have still not reached an agreement, mainly because of a major point in the text: the link between the tariff preferences granted and the readmission of nationals unlawfully present in the EU.
The GSP removes tariffs on exports to the EU from the most vulnerable countries, and...