PARIS: Restrictions on foreigners playing for European Union (EU) clubs virtually ended for good when France enforced the Cotonou agreement allowing Africans and people from the Caribbean to work freely across Europe.
“The Cotonou agreement, signed by the European Union with 77 states from Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean, is applicable to sport as it includes the same clause as in the Malaja case, which states that you cannot ban workers from working in the EU on nationality grounds,” lawyer Michel Pautot said on Friday.
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