During the coming years, terre des hommes and WEED will foster the debate on a fundamental reform of the North-South-policy of the European Union in Germany with a series of joined activities. It is the declared aim to counter deregulation and privatization tendencies, as they currently prevail in European North-South policy, with a EU-policy that is oriented along the vision of socially just and ecologically sustainable development. The main emphasis of the cooperation is on the critical examination of EU foreign trade and investment policies towards the countries of the South. In addition to a careful analysis of the new EU-ACP cooperation agreement ("Cotonou Agreement"), our activities focus on the critical observation of current EU negotiations on free trade agreements and the EU policy within the WTO framework as it relates to developing countries. All our activities are undertaken in close cooperation with EUROSTEP, Brussels, and other partner organizations.

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