ACP states and Guyana's EPA stand

With the Sixth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the 79-member Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States scheduled for Accra, Ghana on October 2 and 3, interest is growing as to the prominence of the future of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with Europe.

The debate on both the process and substantive issues of EPAs with the European Union (EU) has generated strong criticism of the rigid ideological stance by Commissioner Mandelson and his technocrats in the Directorate of the European Commission (executive arm of the EU).