On Thursday 29 February, MEPs adopted, by 397 votes to 47 with 89 abstentions, the report by Joachim Schuster (S&D, German) on the implementation of the EU-Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). The latter includes Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Eswatini.
This partnership agreement provisionally entered into force in October 2016. Its stated objectives are poverty reduction, regional integration, capacity building and...