Internationalization of African trade
The (asymmetric) rules applied to trade with the countries of the African continent have, for the most part, been posed an...
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The hope of Acfta
In Addis Ababa, the African Union has just announced the entry into force of Acfta (African Continental Free Trade Area) f...
Harmonization of standards for the benefit of Africa
In an article in this blog of last December – addressing the intransigence of the attitude of France, who was speaking on ...
Useful French legacy to Morocco
At the beginning of my graduate studies in Lausanne, in the early seventies, I, like other students, used to work during t...
Erosion of the EU
After having reigned for centuries on the slave trade, than established the policy of African colonization that the old co...
African exports at Brexit time
Thalidomide, a drug (teratogen) of German origin sold in the 1950s and early 1960s, caused one of the most serious tragedi...
America is finally interested in Africa
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) – a new food safety law, recently implemented in the US – introduced ...
The long agony of the EU
In the case of a terminally ill person, there is often a consensus to let him go in peace. But finding someone who agrees,...
FSMA, the new paradigm of preventive control
The FDA, US Food and Drug Administration (only its role in food control will be considered in this article), has recently ...
Africa on time of “Dollar – Euro” friction
Just twenty years after the end of the Second World War, a visitor, unprejudiced, could reasonably deduce, by comparing hi...