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Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are unfair trade deals the European Commission is trying to force on African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. These unfair trade deals could destroy economies, jobs and livelihoods in southern Africa.
ACTSA want to see the European Union promote a pro-development trade policy. In their current form EPAs threaten to flood African markets with subsidised European goods and undermine poor farmers and vulnerable producers.
Join ACTSA and the Trade Justice Movement, in calling for the renegotiation of the contentious clauses in the European Commission’s EPAs. In the next few months and weeks members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have the chance to demand that the European Commission’s President, Commissioner Barroso re-opens negotiations.
 
You can find out who your MEPs are and how to contact them here.
 
You can email or write to your MEP using this model letter. 
 
Read our latest EPAs update for April 2008:
What is Europe Offering Africa? The pros and cons of EPAs, for details of the recent Overseas Development Institute event and research paper into the challenges EPAs pose in 2008.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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