The ACP-EU partnership is not really in crisis, but several issues, including the future of EU-Africa relations, have to be clarified, the most important of which are:
1. The fate of the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the EU and the six ACP country groups. The agreements in the form in which they have been drawn up and partially initialled have been challenged or rejected outright by several African countries, but the European Commission continues to regard them as positive...