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No in-depth assessment of the reasons for the failure of the WTO Ministerial Conference at Cancún is provided in the resolution just adopted by the European Parliament. The resolution does not contain clear guidelines for the future either. In particular, it fails to state that:
Failure was due to increasingly widespread rejection of the free trade system. It is imperative to work on the creation of fairer rules governing international trade;
The European Union acted as a fervent disciple of the doctrine of free trade. It bears a good deal of the responsibility for the failure at Cancún. For instance it insisted on including on the agenda negotiations on the Singapore issues on, inter alia, investments and public procurement in spite of opposition from the developing countries.
The Commission bears much of the blame for failure. This is because at these international negotiations the Commission adopted the standard approach it favours when dealing internally with advocates of policies it does not agree with. It simply refuses to communicate with them;
Reform of the common agricultural policy as prepared in advance of Cancún is now largely obsolete. I should mention that we opposed it from the outset. The European Union must take account of the most recent information and draft a further reform, which should provide greater protection for our agricultural model."@en1
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