Protected areas across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific boosted with €60 million investment
From IUCN The European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States have invested €60 million in the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme over the next six years – making it one of the…
Caribbean Export – Part of the Best of Investing in Development
Bridgetown, BARBADOS, June 15, 2017. The 2017 edition of the European Commission’s event European Development Days (EDD) held on June 7-8 in Brussels saw the participation of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) as part of those considered to…
African, Caribbean and Pacific countries should re-examine trade policy with their EU counterpart-Mulusa
From Lusakatimes Minister of National Development and Planning Lucky Mulusa has called on the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to re-examine trade policy with their EU counterpart. Mulusa who is leading a high-power Zambian delegation to the European Development…
Towards a global role for the Africa Caribbean Pacific Group of States?
By Goele Geeraert IPS Contributing Writer From Pride News BRUSSELS, Belgium May 8, 2017 (IPS) — The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) met, last week, in Brussels, for the 105th Session of its Council of Ministers to…
Sugar Association of the Caribbean convenes: Industry Leaders to look at future of Sugar with end to EU Market Looming
JOINT PRESS RELEASE BY SUGAR ASSOCIATION OF THE CARIBBEAN AND THE CARIBBEAN COUNCIL For immediate release (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The EU’s quota management for sugar will end on 30 September 2017 and is expected to lead to…
Going bananas over Brexit
By Samantha Sen From In Depth news LONDON (ACP-IDN) – The Brexit question as seen by the small and poor group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries is far simpler – and potentially far more lethal – than those…
Brexit and the Commonwealth: The Round Table looks at what’s next
By Debbie Ransome From The Round Table Academics, high commissioners, journalists and members of the Round Table editorial board met on 10th November to discuss the implications of Brexit for the UK and countries around the Commonwealth at the launch…
Towards a renewed partnership with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries after 2020
From New Europe Towards a renewed partnership with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries after 2020 Author: European Commission. The following press release was issued by the European Commission on November 22, 2016 14:30.The Joint Communication Towards a renewed partnership with…
The View From Europe: Time to reshape and clarify ACP solidarity
By David Jessop From The Barbados Advocate WHAT does solidarity between nations mean in the early 21st century? Are the values inferred practical or advisable, in a multipolar world in which self-interest, overlapping relationships and multiple economic and political ideas…
Britain’s divorce a sign of sovereign insecurity
By Vinette K. Pryce From Caribbean Life It’s interesting to see how one of Europe’s architects of colonization recently trod a similar path some of their colonized possessions maneuvered when in the last century they voted to be independent. In…