The EU Roadshows promote Europe and raise awareness about the EU and its Member States among the Indonesian public and institutions outside of Jakarta. A number of different actions (lectures, seminars, political visits, exhibitions) were conducted in Surabaya, presenting the EU and its views and cooperation potentials.  Both, the EU [...]

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat-based Caribbean Forum of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (CARIFORUM) Directorate, in collaboration with key partners, launched a €3,099,915 Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)-centered Capacity-building Project, in Georgetown, Guyana on 25 March. The Project’s specific objective is to contribute to the effective implementation of [...]

The SADC Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Coordinating Committee and the technical committees for Food Safety, Plant Protection and Livestock held the second round of their biennial meetings in Gaborone, Botswana from 29 to 31 January 2014. The meetings’ main objectives were to discuss SPS issues affecting the region and to [...]

SADC Secretariat, under the EU-supported Regional Economic Integration Support (REIS) programme, held the first Regional Training Workshop on Trade in Statistics in Gaborone, Botswana on 28-31 January 2014. The objective of the workshop was to train the stakeholders on the collection and compilation of trade in services statistics based on [...]

On December 10-11 2013, 21 representatives of SADC business associations and chambers of commerce from 10 SADC Member States attended a workshop on Standards, Quality assurance, Accreditation and Metrology (SQAM) organised by the Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (TIFI) Directorate in Gaborone. This was in accordance with the main aims [...]

The current negotiations to maintain open markets for trade in services within the SADC region seem to have moved up a gear within the last month, although progress remains uneven and, overall, still behind schedule. At the 20th Trade Negotiations Forum for Trade in Services (TNF 20-Services) held in Johannesburg [...]