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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9540
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Signing of two-tier EPAs with individual ACP countries could infringe Cotonou Agreement and undermine ACP regional integration, say ACP farmers' organisations

Brussels, 09/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - The approach being adopted by the European Commission to break the deadlock in the drawn-out negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with six regions of the ACP group, has been fiercely criticised by the networks of farmers' organisations of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP). The reason for this outcry is the two-tier approach proposed by the Commission in its communication of 23 October for variable geometry EPAs, signed in two...

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