Brussels, 18/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - The EU and West African states have agreed to conclude an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) by October 2009 in order to gradually free up trade in goods and help the region develop. This is a major political success story for the quicksands of the talks process that began in 2002 that has thus far only led to the signing of one interim bilateral deal between the EU and the Ivory Coast in November 2008 and the initialling of an interim agreement...