The European union's green paper on relations with the African, Caribbean and pacific countries

Marjorie Lister

Oxford Development Studies, 1998, vol. 26, issue 3, 375-390

Abstract: This article critically assesses the European Union's Green Paper on its relations with the 71 Lome Convention countries after the millenium. It argues that the Green Paper, which sets out a series of possible options for the future of EU-African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) relations, in fact produces no convincing alternatives to the present Lome system. The European Commission's thinking about EU-ACP relations is neither fully developed nor clear in its approach to the great modernizing development project of the post-war period. The political environment in which the relationship exists is also changing rapidly. Given this situation of fundamental uncertainty, trying to create a new relationship from first principles is over-ambitious. Instead, a gradualist or incremental approach is more likely to succeed.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1080/13600819808424162

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