‘African Voices on Africa-Europe relations’

October 30, 2007

In the publication ‘African Voices on Africa-Europe relations’ BOND has gathered a range of African opinions on the relationship between the EU and Africa.This publication aims at making the voices of our African partners heard in the debate on current and future relations between Africa and Europe.

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Pan African and European Parliaments hold joint talks

October 24, 2007

Parliamentarians representing the Pan African and European Parliaments met on 20 October in Midrand, South Africa discussing the EU-Africa Summit. A twenty-five Member strong delegation of MEPs will hold a pre-summit meeting with an equal number of Pan-African Parliamentarians in Lisbon where a joint declaration by both Parliaments is likely to be adopted, which will then be presented to the Heads of State and Government at the Summit.

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Weekly up-date on EPAs

October 24, 2007

Pursuing its efforts to increase the transparency of the highly sensitive EPA negotiations, ECDPM has decided to set up dedicated pages for each ACP region negotiating an EPA with the EU at www.acp-eu-trade.org/epa.

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Brainstorming on the ‘people to people partnership’

October 18, 2007

The ECDPM report from the brainstorming on how to materialise the people to people partnership approach is available.
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News on Lisbon Summit

October 18, 2007

The Portuguese presidency have not yet sent out the invitations to the EU-Africa Summit planned to take place in December. Their Prime Minister Jose Socrates has said recently that he is of the opinion that all countries should be invited. Read more here.

Britain’s Gordon Brown has earlier declared that he will boycott the summit if Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe attends, and the Czech Republic are now considering to follow his example. Read more here.

Read more news on the Lisbon Summit here.

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