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This is a case of the proverbial ostrich with its head buried in the sand...
Faced with the breakdown of the July 2008 WTO negotiations – in which only seven of its members took part – due to the differences of opinion between the EU and the United States on the one hand and the main developing countries on the other, once again a majority in this Parliament have been forced by circumstance to moderate their language in order to try and salvage the agenda and objectives of liberalisation of world trade through the current negotiating round.
In essence, behind the euphemistically termed ‘Doha Development Agenda’ and other verbal ‘platitudes’, most of this Parliament has not questioned the fundamental point, which is the current negotiating mandate that the Council defined seven years ago and that the European Commission is desperately trying to formalise.
However, despite their continued efforts, the agenda of economic control promoted by the EU’s major financial and economic groups has now come up against increasing contradictions and the interests of the developing countries.
The EU’s true intentions are demonstrated by the content of the bilateral ‘free trade’ agreements it is trying to impose on the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and on Latin American and Asian countries."@en1
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