Programme

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