Will Europe underdevelop Africa again? PART 2

Almost all the flexibilities in policy choice that Africa and other developing countries won under the WTO are lost under the EPAs writes CHUKWUMA CHARLES SOLUDO

In terms of the technique deployed to coerce compliance by Africa, it is the old classic: divide and rule, and carrot and stick.

EU negotiates as a bloc, but ACP countries are divided into seven regions, sometimes not exactly matching the regional integration arrangements. Even within the negotiating regions, each country is literally on its own: that way, it is easy to pick them off one by one.

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