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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7755

10 July 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/bananas
Member States refuse to act under threat of immediate tariff solution brandished by European Commission to settle dispute while authorising the Commission to explore new quota solution

Brussels, 10/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has only received a partial "go ahead" from the Council for the strategy that it hoped to follow, after eight months of fruitless talks around a "historic" quota solution, with a view to resolving the dispute over bananas. The General Affairs Council did in fact authorise it to implement the first part of this strategy - to explore the possibility of finalising a mechanism for breakdown of quotas of the "first come first served"...

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