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The EU-Kenya EPA Is Toxic for East Africa: The agreement signed last month sounds a death knell for regional economic integration

The EU-Kenya EPA Is Toxic for East Africa: The agreement signed last month sounds a death knell for regional economic integration

On 19 June, the Kenyan government concluded and signed the EU-Kenya Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) following a series of unsuccessful attempts to persuade the rest of the East African Community (EAC) to sign onto an EPA between the EU and the EAC as a whole. This comes two years after Kenya decided to pursue the EU-EAC EPA on its own and made a request at the EAC Heads of State Summit for an exemption to implem ...

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