Letter to Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation of Sweden, Afrikagrupperna and Forum Syd.
We call upon you, to use the opportunity of your discussions on 21-22 October to finally relieve the Commission of its EPA mandate. It is time to adapt EU trade policy to reflect reality and to stop insisting on comprehensive deep-integration agreements that neither the WTO nor the Cotonou Agreement require nor the majority of ACP countries see as appropriate and feasible.
Document (EN): forumsyd_EN__06102010_forumsyd_Urgent plea to releive the commission of its EPA mandate.pdfAuthor(s): Karin Gregow, Marja Wolpher