Disabled, Chad & XO laptops feature at ACP-EU assembly

Development issues are at the heart of meetings between the ACP countries and the European Union. Taking care of disabled, economic partnership agreements, the turmoil in Chad and Kenya and regional cooperation in Africa were discussed in Ljubljana during the 15th meeting of representatives for countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) and the European Union.

This report features interviews with Ljudmila Novak, member of the European Parliament for Slovenia; Wilkie Rasmussen, co-President of the ACP-EU parliamentary assembly, German MEPs Michael Gahler and Juergen Schroeder; Dutch MEP Maria Martens; British conservative MEP Nirj Deva; Development Commissioner Louis Michel; and Matt Keller of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project.

This report was produced on behalf of the EPP-ED Group. For more, go to http://www.epp-ed.eu

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Great to see best practices for working with disabled people from Europe being shared with the developing world