EPA's Threaten Another 'Scramble For Africa' - Unionists
Monday, November 19, 2007
Addressing the gathering, the former president of Botswana Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU) Ronald Baipidi described the European Union's impending Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) as a means of underdevelopment of Africa.
"The EU is coming back to deplete our resources," Baipidi said. "I do not like the animal we are creating," he added, in the event that ACP countries accepted the EPAs.
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