'Trade sours EU-Africa relations'

Stalled trade negotiations between the European Union and African states have soured relations between the two continents, the European Union's chief trade negotiator said on Wednesday last week.

Regional groupings of African, Caribbean and Pacific states have resisted signing trade agreements with the EU despite years of negotiations, frustrated by EU demands to cut tariffs and by the wealth of EU commercial regulation.

That has allowed China, India and Brazil to move in and secure access to bountiful African resources and markets.

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