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Title: | Africa, the ACP and Europe: The Lessons of 25 Years |
Author: | Whiteman, Kaye |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Development Policy Review |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 29-37 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | developing countries Africa Europe |
Subjects: | foreign policy European Union Inter-African Relations international relations Economics and Trade |
Abbreviation: | ACP=African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7679.00048 |
Abstract: | This is an edited version of a talk given at the UK National Consultation on the European Commission's 1997 'Green paper on relations between the European Union and the ACP countries on the eve of the 21st century'. The author, general manager of 'West Africa' magazine and a former staff member of the European Commission, traces the political dimensions of the complex economic and financial relationships between the African Lomé countries and the European Union from the first Lomé Convention of 1975 through the fourth convention of 1989 and beyond. Political factors have figured prominently in both the creation and the subsequent development - and decline - of Lomé, and will determine its future course. After a decade of economic crisis for Africa marked by mounting debts, depressed commodity prices and the impact of international monetarist policies, with Lomé gradually slipping down the EU agenda, the nineties have seen a series of positive messages about Africa. The EC's 1997 Green Paper expresses the desire for a new deal, with emphasis on the idea of a revival of the ACP-EU partnership and a strengthening of the political notions of good governance, democratization and human rights in Africa. As for Britain, a new political climate provides a chance to play a fuller role in the European dynamic on the matter of development and the future of the ACP accords. Bibliogr., notes. |