From Post-Cotonou to Samoa: The remaking of OACPS-EU relations

Abstract

On 15 November 2023, leaders of the European Union (EU) and 79 states in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP) met in Samoa to sign the successor to the Cotonou Agreement, which will govern their relations for at least 20 years across various policy areas. In the past, the relationship between the two groupings was criticised for a lack of coherence with other overlapping frameworks of governance, notably in Africa, and was seen as highly asymmetric, tainted by neocolonial overtones. Against this background, the conclusion of a new agreement was not without contestation on and within both sides. This panel thus explores the different logics and dynamics, as well as institutional continuities and changes in the OACPS-EU arrangements that characterised the recalibrating of relations from the end of the Cotonou Agreement to the Samoa Agreement.

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