In her “farewell letter” to EU-Council President Tusk, UK Prime Minister (PM) May stated that the UK “wants to make sure that Europe is capable of projecting its values and leading in the world.” What exactly this means for British engagement in European external relations and...

Vor Mitarbeiter/innen des Entwicklungsministeriums bekräftigte Premierministerin May am 27. März, dass ihr Land sich nicht vor seiner internationalen Verantwortung drücken wolle. Was genau dies für die britische Kooperation mit Entwicklungsländern und die europäische...

The role of the Cotonou Agreement during the negotiation of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States has been well studied. This paper analyses the inverse of this relationship, namely the legal and...

Many actors in the G20, the EU and Germany are calling for a quantum leap in the economic co-operation between Europe and Africa. However current discussion of EU-Africa trading relations frequently focuses solely on the much-debated Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). EPA negotiations date...