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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9431
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Parliament calls on Commission to show greater flexibility in negotiating EPAs to facilitate conclusion in good time - alternative solutions must be considered

Strasburg, 23/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament takes the view that the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) negotiated between the EU and six ACP (African/Caribbean/Pacific) geographical groups, are not only an essential tool for setting up a trade regime that is compatible with WTO rules between the EU and its ACP partners - but that it is also an opportunity. Everything should be done, however, to ensure that the EPAs are the development instrument that they are supposed...

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