Aid Suspensions as Coercive Tools? The European Union’s Experience in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) Context

• Main Author: PORTELA, Clara
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: sanctions; European Union; development aid; ACP aid suspensions; ACP-EU relations; Africa; African Studies; Eastern European Studies; International Relations; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1689; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2940/viewcontent/Art96_ACP_Sanctions.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Since the signing of the Cotonou Agreement in 2000, the European Union (EU) has suspended development aid towards a number of African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries in response to breaches of Human Rights and democratic principles by activating the so-called Human Rights clause (article 96)....