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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7641

26 January 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united states
Lamy describes allegations on "GMO in exchange for CAP" bargaining as "pure nonsense"

Brussels, 25/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - European Commissioner Pascal Lamy, who is responsible for trade, formally and categorically dismissed the allegations made by a British weekly whereby he is said to have prepared a secret trade-off deal with the US involving accepting imports of US food containing GMOs in exchange for a US commitment to drop its request that the EC should cut farm subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This is "pure nonsense", he said regarding the...

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