Also, on top of this the EU has various deals with African regions in development, aimed at helping Africa integrate into global trading system (EU is Africa’s biggest trading partner)
Here’s the West Africa deal- incl Nigeria where May’s been visiting:
In my case, that meant writing plans for UK-EU science post-Brexit (published academically & shared with Govt).
However, I also always maintained that if public don’t like where Brexit is going, they retain right to pull the plug.
Furthermore, the notion of a referendum on the deal is not logically indefensible.
In fact, for many years Rees-Mogg, John Redwood & even the Vote Leave campaign pushed the idea of a “double referendum” - one to initiate direction, one to pass verdict on any deal negotiated.
John Redwood absolutely caught red-handed on TV over his support for “double referendum” - wait until the end.
In fact, Dominic Cummings and Vote Leave publicly flirted with a Double Referendum.
Here was his thinking: Basically, that you get more moderates voting ‘No’ to EU if they thought that meant stopping status quo & having new deal on which they cld vote: