How safe is Ghana under Economic Partnership Agreements?
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot Accra, April 21, Ghanadot – On December 13, 2007, the European Commission initialled a stepping stone, Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs) with Ghana. The agreement, according to them, will enable Ghana to benefit from significantly improved market access to the EU. This to them will be an immediate boost for investment and growth in Ghana. But Mr. Thomas Deve, Policy Analyst for Africa at the UN Millennium campaign said, EPAs “will kill off any ambitions we have for regional integration within and across Africa and South-South relations with other developing regions”. He said “Already, the EPAs have split all of Africa’s regions – in West Africa for example, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have broken ranks and endangered unity by going ahead to agree ‘interim EPAs’ with Europe.” It must not be overlooked that while the Caribbean and Pacific regions are physically defined, the same cannot be said of Africa where countries hop from one regional grouping into another. T
