TRADE:      Pending EU Agreements Put West Africa at Risk
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BRUSSELS, May 25 (IPS) - The European Union and West Africa could scarcely  be more different in terms of wealth, yet a pending trade  agreement risks making the disparity even greater.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Like a game of high-stakes chicken set on the global stage, Turkey and the European Union have been locked in a tense standoff ahead of this week's deadline for Turkey to open its ports to Cypriot vessels or face consequences.
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PARIS, Jan 26  (IPS) - While the real impact of the economic partnership  agreements (EPAs) on the economies of African, Caribbean and  Pacific (ACP) countries will be ââsmallââ, the pace of  negotiations and of the liberalisation of their markets is too  fast and will damage their economies, according to numerous  French economists and development experts.
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The collapse of global trade talks  was bad news for Africa, condemning the world's poorest  continent to an uncertain future of high tariffs and lagging  competitiveness, officials and experts said on Monday.
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Scientists show how European fishing policies are driving some of the bushmeat trade in west Africa.
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Cocoa traders face a volatile week as unrest in the Ivory Coast threatens to disrupt supplies from the world's biggest producer.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 8 (IPS) - New trade negotiations between the EU and a group  of small Pacific countries might only bring more poverty, NGOs  fear.
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BRUSSELS Amid thinly veiled threats of legal actions, trade negotiators from the European Union and the United States failed here on Thursday to resolve their dispute over the aid that each side gives to their airplane makers.
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KINGSTON, Aug 5 (IPS) - For the small, developing economies of the  Caribbean, the world trade body's preliminary ruling against  European Union sugar comes as more bad news for a beleaguered  sector, and highlights a seeming paradox these countries often  face in the global trade arena.
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EU trade chief Peter Mandelson says Europe's ex-colonies could miss out if they do not sign new trade deals.
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BONN, Mar 13 (IPS) - Europe's highest-ranking trade official has  claimed  that the entire African, Pacific and  Caribbean (ACP)  bloc is committed to reaching controversial free trade  deals  with the EU by  the end of this year. Not everyone from the ACP  group thinks so.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 7 (IPS) - Governments from island states in the Pacific have  accused the European Union of failing to take account their  development needs when drawing up a free trade agreement that it  expects them to sign by the end of this year.
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The Aids epidemic is posing a serious threat to Europe's social and economic stability, warn experts.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 1 (IPS) - The European Union moved closer to a trade war with  Latin America Monday when it formally notified the World Trade  Organisation that it will triple import tariffs on bananas next  year.
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BRUSSELS, Mar 9 (IPS) - The European Union (EU) has imported sugar at  preferential prices from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries  since the 1970s; but, failed sugar reform within the union and  the prospect of unlimited imports from Least Developed Countries  (LDCs) in the near future have put a question mark over this  arrangement.
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West African leaders meeting in Ghana with instability in Ivory Coast high on their agenda.
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The European Union threatened a World Trade Organization case against the US and Canada if they don&#39;t drop $126 million of tariffs, imposed on EU exports in retaliation for a ban on hormone-treated beef.