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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9163

30 March 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 27 / 42
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ep/acp
Parliament urges Commission to ensure economic partnership agreements serve ACP development well - Call for alternative solutions to be examined

Brussels, 29/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - Concerned about a potentially adverse impact on the ACP (African/Caribbean/Pacific) countries of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently being negotiated with the EU, the European Parliament presses for these agreements to give priority to development in line with the repeated declarations of the European Commission. We recall that EPAs, which are supposed to enter into force in 2008, must prepare long term establishment of areas of free...

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