Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ILGE Burghard
Today, Both ENDS sent a letter, signed by various civil society organisations, to Sigrid Kaag (Dutch Minister of Aid & Trade) reminding her of an important deadline and to urge her to terminate the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) that exists between the Netherlands and Burkina Faso. The (…)
, by NACEUR Sofian Philip
Behind the fine words about cooperation and strengthening partner country capacity, EU police training and equipment aid in North Africa and the Sahel is strengthening repression. The EU offers support to national police forces, on condition that they reduce undocumented migration towards (…)
, by GUE/NGL
Chief Catherine Ashton on the recent French military intervention in Mali, GUE/NGL MEP Sabine Lösing said : “The situation in Mali is dangerous and we don’t want to see any expansion or entrenchment of Islamist hegemony. Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world despite its raw material (…)
, by KWA Aileen
“We succumbed,” lamented a diplomat from Namibia. “We signed on the 12th of December. The pressure was too much. The private sector felt that they would be disproportionately affected. In terms of markets, they would be losing access for beef, grapes, fish and fish products.”
“The political (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We, civil society activists engaged in a wide range of peoples’ movements and organisations in Africa and Europe met in Lisbon from 7-9 December 2007 to express our opposition and resistance to the neoliberal free trade and investment policies that European and African governments are (…)
, by KAMIDZA Richard
The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) being currently discussed between the Africa-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) and the European Union (EU)are essentially free trade areas (FTAs) in which farmers, producers and companies from the poorest Eastern and Southern African (ESA) countries are set to (…)
, by KEET Dot
Reports from Cape Town on the counter strategies by South Africa and its partners in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to the EU’s thrust for free trade access to - and through - South Africa into the rest of Southern Africa [1].
Since the European Union turned down South (…)
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