Resources on the AU–EU summit in Lisbon

Internet resources and NAI publications that relate to the summit meeting held in Lisbon on 8–9 December 2007, or to the topics discussed at the meeting.

Useful websites

The African Union
http://www.africa-union.org

Lisbon summit
http://europafrica.org/lisbon-summit

EU-Africa consultation
http://europafrica.org

EU@UN, "EU and Africa: Towards a Strategic Partnership",
http://www.europa-eu-un.org/articles/en/article_5499_en.htm

"The EU Strategy for Africa" on the website of Europe Cares, European Union Development Policy
http://ec.europa.eu/development/Geographical/europe-cares/index_en.html

EUROPA - Gateway to the European Union
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm

Latest news about Africa and the European Union from EUbusiness.com.
http://www.eubusiness.com/africa


On the Economic Partnership Agreements:

European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
http://www.ecdpm.org
ECDPM has set up dedicated pages for each ACP region negotiating an EPA with the EU in an effort to increase the transparency of the highly sensitive EPA negotiations. These pages are updated on a weekly basis and aim at providing news “as-it-happens”, drawing from various reliable sources of information.
http://www.acp-eu-trade.org/epa
http://www.ecdpm.org/epa

ECDPM publishes ACP–EU News which is updated daily at:
http://www.ecdpm.org/news

ACP–EU News is also published as a Weekly E-Alert. On this page previous issues are available in PDF format:
http://www.ecdpm.org/Web_ECDPM/Web/Content/Content.nsf

The Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
http://www.acpsec.org

euforic: Europe's Forum on International Cooperation
http://www.euforic.org

International Economic Development Group (Under ODI)
http://www.odi.org.uk/iedg/index.html

Useful NAI publications

NAI Newsletter 30 October 2007: The EU–ACP Negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements. (pdf)

Roberto Rios-Herran, Effects of Rules of Origin on the European Union – Africa Economic Partnership Agreements: Summary of issues. NAI, Policy Notes: Trade. 2007. Electronic publication.

Marikki Stocchetti, The Development Dimension or Disillusion? The EU's Development Policy Goals and the Economic Partnership Agreements. NAI, Policy Notes: Trade, 2007. Electronic publication.

See also information and reports as well as PowerPoint presentations of papers presented at the conference Commodities, Rules of Origin, Development and Legal dimensions of the European Union/Africa Economic Partnership Debates: The Nexus between African Issues of Concern in EPAs and the WTO Doha Development debates held in Uppsala 7–8 September 2007.

Margaret C. Lee, Henning Melber, Sanusha Naidu, Ian Taylor. Compiled by Henning Melber, China in Africa. The Nordic Africa Institute, 2007. Current African Issues 35.

Melber, Henning (Ed.) Trade, Development, Cooperation - What Future for Africa?. The Nordic Africa Institute, 2005. Current African Issues 29.

Brüntrup, Michael, Henning Melber and Ian Taylor. Compiled by Henning Melberg, Africa, Regional Cooperation and the World Market. Socio-Economic Strategies in Times of Global Trade Regimes. The Nordic Africa Institute, 2006, Discussion Paper 31.