On Wednesday 10 September in Strasbourg, MEPs approved (528 votes in favour, 89 against and 48 abstentions) Vanuatu’s accession to the Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement between the EU, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and the Solomon Islands, as an asymmetrical trade agreement compatible with WTO rules.
In an explanatory note, rapporteur Dariusz Joński (EPP, Polish) points out that following Vanuatu’s classification by the World Bank as an ‘upper-middle income country’, it...