Brussels / Geneva, 17/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - Ecuador has formally called on the World Trade Organisation to authorise it to impose sanctions on the European Union for an injury of $450 million caused by the EU's non-compliance with the World Trade Organisation's verdict in the dispute over bananas. This is the very first time that a developing country has asked for reparations under WTO rules, the Ecuadorian ambassador to Geneva Roberto Betancourt explained. The Union ought to have...