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EU-Tunisia DCFTA: good intentions not enough - shift needed from deep to deliberate, comprehensive to coherent and from free to fair trade
[Stellungnahme]
Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
Abstract The European Union has been negotiating a new free trade agreement (DCFTA) with Tunisia since 2016, seeking to expand mutual market access for all goods, and also services and investments. But great obstacles remain to be overcome. The EU hesitates to grant concessions on agriculture that would make... mehr
The European Union has been negotiating a new free trade agreement (DCFTA) with Tunisia since 2016, seeking to expand mutual market access for all goods, and also services and investments. But great obstacles remain to be overcome. The EU hesitates to grant concessions on agriculture that would make a deal attractive to Tunis, while overall resistance exists within Tunisian civil society, business and politics. A shrewd agreement could promote economic modernisation and growth, to strengthen and stabilise Tunisia’s young democracy. That is obviously also in the EU's interest. But substantial progress cannot be expected until after elections to the European Parliament and parliamentary and presidential elections in Tunisia in late 2019. The intervening period should be used to generate a broader consensus in Tunisia and to enable Tunis to create a negotiating strategy of its own. (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
EU; Tunesien; internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen; Wirtschaftsabkommen; Freihandel; arabische Länder; Nordafrika
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Volkswirtschaftstheorie
Freie Schlagwörter
Internationale Handelsbeziehungen; Wirtschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen; Bestimmungsfaktoren wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung/Unterentwicklung; Marktzugang; Verhandlungsposition; Wirtschaftliche Interessen
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
8 S.
Schriftenreihe
SWP Comment, 49/2018
ISSN
1861-1761
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung