Dr Carlos Lopes

The ACP-EU relationship remains an ongoing source of conflict and there is frustration on both sides: from the African Union led by the AU's chief negotiator on post-Cotonou Carlos Lopes that the EU prefers to negotiate with an organisation that is essentially a supplicant with few ambitions beyond receiving aid; and from Brussels that African countries do not yet speak with a united voice and are not in the Commission's eyes a reliable partner on trade...

The African Union's chief negotiator Carlos Lopes is resented by his EU counterparts who see him as too assertive...

Carlos Lopes the former Executive Secretary of the UN's Economic Commission for Africa who now leads the AU policy team negotiating with the EU argues that as China's investments in Africa barely exceed 5% of its global investment portfolio it has no need or interest in downgrading its Africa operations...

The AU heads of state then upped the ante at their summit in Noakchott Mauritania in July by appointing Carlos Lopes the distinguished Bissau-Guinean economist and former head of the UN's Economic Commission on Africa as high representative for the talks...

Another is that in the words of Carlos Lopes the AU's chief negotiator on the talks 'Africa now has more choices'...

The former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Carlos Lopes argues that the most significant impact for Africa of a 'hard Brexit' would be felt if the UK's financial services sector lost its place as Europe's financial hub...

Under Carlos Lopes the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa Ethiopia has been advocating an interventionist developmental state pursuing a 'smart protection' industrialisation policy (AC Vol 56 No 15 Goalfest in Addis)...

‘This is an African problem with a global solution ' said the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa Carlos Lopes...

Carlos Lopes who heads the United Nations' Economic Commission for Africa told delegates about Brazil's Conditional Cash Transfer scheme under which families received social security benefits only if their child had attended for a minimum number of school days and got their mandatory vaccinations...

On 13 January Dlamini-Zuma shared a platform at the AU headquarters with African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka and the Economic Commission for Africa’s Executive Secretary Carlos Lopes to launch a coordinated development plan for the next 50 years...