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If the EU is unlikely to offer revised terms to basic trade, it is dangling some alternatives. These include lean Trade and Investment Partnerships (CTIP) — focussed on clean energy (Photo: Peter Teffer)

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Left behind — why the EU is not pursuing new trade deals with Africa  

Free trade deals are back in vogue. 

The European Commission plans to ‘diversify’ relations with its trading partners as it faces the reality of the Trump administration’s 25 percent tariff on its cars, steel and aluminium and 10 percent on all other goods.

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

If the EU is unlikely to offer revised terms to basic trade, it is dangling some alternatives. These include lean Trade and Investment Partnerships (CTIP) — focussed on clean energy (Photo: Peter Teffer)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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