This month ministers and officials from across the Caribbean
assembled in Jamaica to discuss the future of our collective
relationship with the European Union.
This was the latest in a series of forums that have taken place in the past eighteen months, all with the aim of working toward a bolstered agreement that will further integrate our political and economic interests.
The current African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) agreement with the EU was signed in 2000 in Cotonou, Benin.
The eponymous agreement was designed to establish a comprehensive partnership, focused on three pillars: development cooperation, political cooperation, and economic and trade cooperation.
It has been successful in many areas, but the time has come to renew its purpose and for fresh engagement among our nations.
Much has changed over the past two decades for Caribbean nations as well as the EU.
While in 2000 there were only nine member states of the EU, there are now 28, which has radically changed the dynamic of the Union's influence in the world.
The global threats we share have also shifted.
Climate change, for example, which poses unmeasurable risk to the Caribbean, is a fight which is more urgent now than ever before.
Reasd Closer EU-Caribbean ties mean greater prosperity for all
This was the latest in a series of forums that have taken place in the past eighteen months, all with the aim of working toward a bolstered agreement that will further integrate our political and economic interests.
The current African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) agreement with the EU was signed in 2000 in Cotonou, Benin.
The eponymous agreement was designed to establish a comprehensive partnership, focused on three pillars: development cooperation, political cooperation, and economic and trade cooperation.
It has been successful in many areas, but the time has come to renew its purpose and for fresh engagement among our nations.
Much has changed over the past two decades for Caribbean nations as well as the EU.
While in 2000 there were only nine member states of the EU, there are now 28, which has radically changed the dynamic of the Union's influence in the world.
The global threats we share have also shifted.
Climate change, for example, which poses unmeasurable risk to the Caribbean, is a fight which is more urgent now than ever before.
Reasd Closer EU-Caribbean ties mean greater prosperity for all
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