Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU & African, Caribbean & Pacific countries

The European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have been renegotiating their relationship. A series of interim Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) were signed with a number of ACP countries towards the end of 2007, as well as a more comprehensive EPA with the Caribbean ACPs.
This note updates with recent developments, and outlines some of the criticisms there have been of EPAs and the negotiations.