On 30 January 1975, Claude Cheysson, Member of the European Commission, Garret FitzGerald, Irish Foreign Minister and President of the EEC Council of Ministers, and Babakar Ba, Senegalese Finance Minister and President of the ACP (African, Carribean and Pacific countries) Council of Ministers, discuss the problem EEC-ACP trade in sugar.

On 3 February 1975, German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung comments on how the new trade relations will work between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 46 African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

On 12 February 1975, the Undersecretary of State to the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, expresses his satisfaction with the success of negotiations on a cooperation policy between the Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

On 27 February 1975, the Togolese press leads with the negotiations for the establishment of a convention between the European Economic Community (EEC) and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. For a few days, Lomé, the capital of Togo, becomes the ‘capital of cooperation between 508 million people’. The Lomé Convention provides for a system of cooperation combining development aid, industrial and technical trade cooperation and financial assistance. It guarantees that export revenues of the 46 ACP countries will remain stable, despite the risks of poor harvests or falling prices.

On 28 February 1975, 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States and the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) sign a cooperation convention in Lomé (Togo) .

On 28 February 1975, General Étienne Eyadema, Togolese President and Head of Government, welcomes Claude Cheysson, European Commissioner with special responsibility for development, and François-Xavier Ortoli, President of the European Commission, upon their arrival in Lomé for the ceremony to mark the signature of the first EEC-ACP convention.

On 28 February 1975, François-Xavier Ortoli, President of the Commission of the European Communities, delivers a speech during the ceremony to mark the signature, in Lomé, of the first Convention of cooperation between the Member States of the EEC and the ACP countries.

On 28 February 1975, Babacar Ba, President of the 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States and Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs of Senegal, delivers a speech during the signing of the Lomé Convention for economic cooperation between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and the ACP States.

In March 1975, the bimonthly bulletin Le Courrier — Communauté européenne–Afrique–Caraïbes–Pacifique publishes a special edition on the signing, on 28 February 1975 in Lomé, of the cooperation agreement between the European Economic Community (EEC) and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. The author Charles Schiffmann particularly focuses on the processes that have been leading up to the Lomé Convention since 1957.

In March 1975, the bimonthly bulletin Le Courrier — Communauté européenne–Afrique–Caraïbes–Pacifique publishes a special edition on the signing, on 28 February 1975 in Lomé, of the cooperation agreement between the European Economic Community (EEC) and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. Claude Cheysson, Member of the Commission of the European Communities in charge of development and cooperation, analyses the philosophy of the new Lomé Convention and how it fits into the overall development policy of the European Communities.

On 1 March 1975, French daily newspaper Le Monde describes the main provisions of the first Lomé Convention, signed on 28 February 1975 in the Togolese capital by 44 African, Carribean and Pacific countries and the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC).

On 1 April 1976, in its coverage of the entry into force, the same day, of the first Lomé Convention, the daily newspaper Luxemburger Wort describes the procedures for the new economic relations between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC ) and the African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

In May 1977, the monthly publication 30 jours d'Europe gives a provisionally positive account of the application of the first Lomé Convention on EEC-ACP cooperation.

Table tracing the development of the cooperation policy followed by the European Economic Community (EEC) between the entry into force of the Treaties of Rome and June 1977.

In the mid-1970s, the European Economic Community (EEC) sends aid to the starving peoples of the African Sahel.

In this interview, Jean-Jacques Kasel, Legation Attaché in the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry from 1973 to 1976, sets out the issues surrounding the negotiations that led to the signing of the first Lomé Convention on cooperation between 44 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states and the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC).

On 16 February 1978, in anticipation of the negotiations on the renewal of the Lomé Convention, the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) presents a draft memorandum on future relations between the ACP States and the European Economic Community (EEC). The ACP Group particularly focuses on the reason for this renegotiation, the repercussions of the new international economic situation for the ACP states and the development of EEC cooperation policy. The memorandum also contains proposals on the strategy that should be adopted during these negotiations.

On 16 February 1978, the Commission of the European Communities (EC) submits a memorandum to the Council of Ministers on the forthcoming negotiations between the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the European Economic Community (EEC) with a view to the renewal of the Lomé Convention. The Commission analyses the prospects for the development of the EEC’s cooperation policy with the aim of consolidating and strengthening the Convention.

On 31 October 1979, Togolese hostesses wearing ceremonial African dress in the colours of the EEC–PAC partnership witness the official signing of the second Lomé Convention.

On 31 October 1979, 57 African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP) States and the 9 Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) sign a cooperation convention in Lomé (Togo) .

On 31 October 1979, the second Convention of economic cooperation between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 57 African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP) countries is signed in Lomé (Togo).

On 31 October 1979, Pierre Bernard-Reymond, French Secretary of State to the Minister for Foreign Affairs (European Affairs), agrees to be interviewed by the French Catholic daily newspaper Le Figaro on the subject of the second Lomé Convention, of 31 October 1979, which defines, for a five-year period, trade relations between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 57 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States.

On 31 October 1979, Simone Veil, President of the European Parliament, welcomes the signing of the second Lomé Convention, which, for the next five years, regulates trade relations between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 57 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries.

On 31 October 1979, in Lomé, the Togolese people welcome the signing of the second Convention linking the Nine to 58 ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) States.

In January 1980, monthly publication 30 jours d'Europe comments on the main provisions of the second Lomé Convention, signed on 31 October 1979, which was to govern trade relations between the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) and 57 African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP) States.