Implications of the Lome Conventions for Long Term ACP-EEC Economic Relations

This section will integrate and summarize the results of the foregoing sections and discuu them in the context of long-term EECACP economic relations. There are concrete areas in which Lome directly reinforces European economic hegemony over the ACP. Lome’s trade, aid and commodity support system function as a package. While no one component is particularly significant, put together they form a coherent whole. The analogy could be drawn with an automobile, each part immobile when looked at separately but driving when assembled.