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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7755

10 July 2000
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Positions taken by EU in agricultural negotiations under way within WTO confirm once and for all that Europe has a humanist and ecological (and no longer just commercial) conception of the place and significance agriculture holds for a civilisation

After years of hesitation. How can one not be pleased when a position taken by the EU goes beyond the normal significance of documents of this kind to take on the importance of an "act of civilisation"? We are not speaking of speeches and declarations, whose role is to affirm principles and which have never been lacking in Europe. There is no shortage in this field. There is even a risk of excess with periodic slides towards rhetoric or demagogy. No, this remark refers to operational...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT