Post Lomé WTO-Compatible Trading Arrangements: Economic Paper 45

by Christopher Stevens, Jane Kennan

This report aims to stimulate a debate on the future of EU trade policy. It has been written against a background of continuing uncertainty over a WTO waiver for the EU-ACP Cotonou Convention that would continue liberal access to the European market for ACP exports until 2007. While it may influence the resolution of this issue, the immediate short-term objective of the report is to help the ACP prepare for the start of negotiations on a post-Cotonou agreement (scheduled to begin in 2002 for completion by 2007); and in particular to set the agenda by seizing the intellectual high ground in the way that the European Commission was able to do during the final years of Lomé IV through the publication of its Green Paper.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Christopher Stevens is a widely published writer and journalist. His biography of Kenneth Williams, Born Brilliant, was abridged as a Radio Four Book of the Week, and shortlisted for the Sheridan Morley Theatre Biography prize. His celebration of the fathers of classic sitcom, Galton & Simpson, was launched at the National Theatre on London's South Bank and led to the premiere performance of a lost comedy masterpiece, The Day Off, which he discovered.

His memoir, A Real Boy, was hailed as "incredibly moving" by the Sun. For the past 15 years, Christopher Stevens has been a senior sub-editor at the Observer, Britain's oldest and most respected Sunday newspaper. He has also written for newspapers and magazines from Hello! to the Telegraph, and been interviewed more than 50 times for television and radio about his books, including keynote appearances on NPR and CNN. - from book bio.