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The European institutions do not yet seem to have incorporated the summit's political guidelines and new Court of Justice rulings into the EU's attitute to agriculture and agricultural negotiations with third countries

A stroke of luck, the Seattle failure? Today we are almost tempted to say that the failure of the Seattle Conference was a stroke of luck! Without the shock it provoked, the change in mentalities regarding the limits and conditions of globalisation would no doubt not have undergone the dazzling acceleration we have witnessed. The speech by the President of the United States at the Davos Forum constitutes in a sense the symbol of this change, not because Bill Clinton said more than others,...