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The 20th Brussels Development Briefing will be on ‘Financing agriculture and will take place on the 15th of September 2010. As an input to the UN Summit on MDGs to be held in New York on 22-26 September 2010, we will discuss issues related to financing development in the context of agriculture and rural development. This will include issue such as Aid and ODA, taxation (Domestic tax revenues), private investment (new donors), revenue generation.
For more information please contact: lopes@cta.int or boto@cta.int
- 12th to 13th July: Meeting of the Committee on Development
- 12th to 15th July: Meeting of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
EU Presidency:
- 12th July (Brussels)): Agriculture and Fisheries Council
- 12th to 13th July (Gent): Informal Environmental Council
- 13th July (Brussels): Economic and Financial Council
ACP Secretariat (Seychelles)
-13th to 16th July: 5th Regional meeting ACP-EU joint Parliamentary Assembly
For more information please consult the calendar on our webpage http://brussels.cta.int/
Southern African trade ministers have pledged to sign a significantly scaled down economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) before the end of 2010. Could this be the conclusion to years of divisive negotiations?
Southern African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretary Tomáz Salomão criticised the European Union (EU) for trying to “impose” a preferential free-trade agreement on countries in the region. Last year, the EU signed an interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) with Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland to facilitate the free movement of goods between the two regions.