Although the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA), which brings together MEPs and parliamentarians from the 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries linked to the EU by the Cotonou Agreement, ended smoothly in Brussels on Wednesday 28 June, all the participants deplored the fact that the post-Cotonou Agreement has still not been signed by the Europeans (see EUROPE B13208A5).
The urgent call to sign was reiterated at the opening of the JPA by the co-presidents, Carlos Zorrinho (S&D,...