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"Although it is too early to determine the real impact of the decisions made at the EU-Africa Summit, and despite certain contradictions, the rejection of the EU’s free trade agreements (known as ‘economic partnership agreements’) by the African countries should be welcomed.
Somewhat ironically, this rejection – despite all the EU’s unacceptable pressure and blackmail – of these ‘economic partnership agreements’ by the African countries constitutes a real example of what is, ultimately, the infamous ‘good governance’ so extolled by the EU. In other words, it represents the assumption and defence by a country of control over its economy.
In our opinion, effective cooperation for development requires respect for national sovereignty, for political and economic independence and for the right of all peoples to decide their present and future and to define and build their country and their development project. Such cooperation is incompatible with the more or less hidden objectives and ideas of interference, exploitation, pillaging of resources and political and economic control.
It has been said that the EU-Africa Summit turned a ‘new page’. For our part, we will continue to speak out so that the neo-colonialist ambitions of the EU and its major multinationals are not (re)written on this page."@en1
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