Europe is negotiating new trade deals – economic partnership agreements – with African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries but it is choosing power politics over partnership.
Trade campaign
Highlights
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29 July 2008
The reported breakdown of world trade talks was caused by rich countries offering too little and making unreasonable demands in return.
29 July 2008
As negotiations continued at the WTO in Geneva, international agency Oxfam said that developing countries must not be blamed for delay or possible breakdown of the talks.
26 July 2008
The deal emerging in WTO talks has some serious flaws and falls far short of the pro-development reform that was originally promised, said international agency Oxfam today.
25 July 2008
The refusal of the US to cut cotton subsidies that hurt West African farmers is a signal that they are not serious about living up to their development promises in trade talks
22 July 2008
A new US offer on farm subsidies at the WTO in Geneva does not go nearly far enough and will not deliver the promised benefits for developing countries.
In depth
How the Farm Bill squanders chances for a pro-development trade deal
21 July 2008
How Europe should bring development into its trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries
21 April 2008
How the European Union can maintain market access for African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in the absence of Economic Partnership Agreements
27 April 2007
The Doha development round has lost its way
27 July 2005
If the new trade agreements are skewed in favor of Europe’s rich countries, then they are more likely to increase rather than reduce poverty.
Trade robs poor people of a proper living, and keeps them trapped in poverty. Watch the interactive diagrams!
"How can we cope with this problem? Cotton prices are too low to keep our children in school, or to buy food and pay for health." Brahima Outtara, Burkina Faso.
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