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EU preferential trade agreements

Following the release of the ‘Global Europe’ strategy1 and the end of the European moratorium on bilateral trade negotiations with commercially meaningful partner countries in 2006, policy-makers in Brussels have significantly expanded and diversified the EU external trade negotiation portfolio. Since then, the European Commission has initiated a wide range of negotiations with important trade …

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The future of EU governance support in Africa

EU-Africa relations are shifting and creating new dilemmas for Europe’s engagement on governance. As African countries grow and strengthen their political and economic relationships with emerging powers, the EU’s ability to promote governance reform in Africa – particularly through political conditionalities – will inevitably decline. . . . → Read More: The future of EU …

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Le rôle de la France et des Français dans la politique européenne de coopération au développement

Témoignage de Dieter Frisch, ancien Directeur Général du Développement à la Commission Européenne, présenté au Colloque « La France, l’Europe et l’aide au développement – des Traités de Rome à nos jours », Paris, 8 Décembre 2011. Download: Le rôle de la France et des français dans la politique européenne de coopération au développement