Namibia and the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), by Professor Henning Melber

The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have been negotiated for just over a decade between the EU and the ACP countries without satisfactory results. Most of the ACP countries have refused to enter or implement the agreements. Among those on the African continent at the forefront of resistance has been Namibia. Despite considerable economic risks the Namibian government has argued that the current format of the EPAs is not in the country’s interest. This paper presents in more detail the negotiations between Brussels and Windhoek and the Namibian position.

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