Cariforum-EU Consultative Committee - 6th meeting
8:15 - 9:00 am Registration and welcome coffee
9:00 - 9:10 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Co-Chairs of the CARIFORUM-EU CC
- Adoption of agenda
9:10 - 10:30 am Post-Cotonou with a focus on CARIFORUM
- The Hon. Sandra Husbands, M.P., Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and in Business Development of Barbados
- Ovidiu Naftanaila, Head of the Political, Press and Information Section of the EU Delegation to Barbados, The Eastern Caribbean States, OECS, and CARICOM/CARIFORUM
Debate between CARIFORUM-EU CC members
10:30 - 10:45 am Networking coffee
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Update on the CARIFORUM-EU EPA Review and an inclusive EU Trade Policy
- Arkadiusz Szymanski, Trade Policy manager, EU Delegation to Barbados, The Eastern Caribbean States, OECS, and CARICOM/CARIFORUM
Debate between CARIFORUM-EU CC members
12:00 – 1:30 pm Group picture and lunch offered by the European Economic and Social Committee
1:30 – 2:45 pm Impact of COVID-19 on trade relations between CARIFORUM and the EU
- Akil Yearwood, Trade in Services and Investment Specialist, CARIFORUM-EU EPA Implementation Unit, CARICOM Secretariat
Debate between CARIFORUM-EU CC members
2:45 – 3:45 pm Current Global Economy and implications for the CARIFORUM-EU EPA
- Dr. Jan Yves Remy, Director, Shridath Ramphal Centre, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Campus Barbados
Debate between CARIFORUM-EU CC members
3:45 – 4:00 pm Networking coffee
4:00 – 5:55 pm Joint Statement
- Discussion and negotiation (of the joint statement)
- Adoption
5:55 – 6:00 pm Closing of the meeting
- Co-Chairs of the CARIFORUM-EU CC