African NGOs call on their governments to reject EPAs

After their recent meeting in Accra, Ghana, African civil society organisations (CSOs) have issued a communiqu condemning the European Union (EU) for using the December deadline to put unjustifiable pressure on African governments to concede to its terms in the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).

In the communiqu issued last Friday, the CSOs cautioned African governments not to buy into the EU's false claims and re-emphasised that Africa has everything to lose and nothing to gain by signing EPAs with the European Union.

They said that contrary to EU claims, African countries do not need to sign EPAs to maintain their current market access levels to the European market.

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