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"The developing countries are organising and asserting themselves. The main lesson of Cancún is linked to the rising power of the Southern ‘bloc’. The poor countries have had enough of putting up with the arrogance of the world trade giants, the United States and the European Union. Even though Mr Pascal Lamy is doing his best to make believe that the failure of the conference is, first and foremost, detrimental to the poor countries, the fact remains that – for lack of the WTO fortress – a protectorate has fallen. We have to get away from the cynicism of the ‘tit for tat’ logic which consists of imposing on the South the profligacy of all-out liberalisation of their most vital sectors, while its people are struggling to survive. The Union and the Member States should construct new relations with the South, not despoil it. Europe should refuse to toe the United States' line, by leaning, for example, on the authority acquired by the anti-globalisation movement. Today, isolated, discredited in its will to invest sincerely in a real cooperation and development policy, the Union needs to pull itself together. The so-called ‘poor’ countries are not poor in terms of demands and proposals. It is by considering them as real counterparts that Europe will win a place in the world, in order to help make it more humane."@en1
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