Parliamentarians from the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries this week issued a joint call to prioritize social and economic reconstruction in the regions ravaged by Ebola in West Africa.
“The current epidemic is a threat to the fragile economy and to the political and social stability of the affected countries and of the region as a whole,” they said in a unanimous resolution passed Wednesday during the EU-ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg, France.
The assembly brings together members of the European Parliament from the 28 member states and parliamentarians from the 78 ACP countries. As a consultative body, it has a political role in addressing issues on development, democracy and trade to international fora and the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm.
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Diederik Kramers is a freelance correspondent in Brussels covering EU and NATO affairs. A former spokesperson and communications officer for UNICEF and UNHCR, he previously worked as foreign desk and Eastern Europe editor for the Dutch press agency ANP and as editor-in-chief of the Dutch quarterly Ukraine Magazine.