Author : Jinxiang Li
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)
Book Synopsis The European Union Relationship to the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Countries in Terms of the Cotonou Agreements by : Jinxiang Li
Download or read book The European Union Relationship to the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Countries in Terms of the Cotonou Agreements written by Jinxiang Li and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this paper was to explore the role economic partnership agreements play in regional integration. The whole paper was premised on identifying the nature of economic partnership agreements that is conceived as a free trade arrangement. Therefore the paper discussed the feasibility of the reciprocal principle between the European Union and ACP countries, and further indicated that there is no need to implement the principle of reciprocity at present. The paper also discovered that, due to the fact that unequal trade relations between the EU and the ACP countries still exist, the implementation of the EPAs is most likely to generate the complementary but non-competitive trade relations between the EU and the ACP countries. Such a situation could result in the ACP countries over-independence on the EU's market. ACP countries are not expecting to such integration. In addition the paper ascertains that the EPAs themselves could contain the intrinsic negative impacts such as discrimination against the third countries on regional integration.