Brussels, 10/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament will discuss, on 16 January, the report by Dutch Liberal Bob van den Bos, which takes a stance in favour of concluding a new cooperation agreement between the European Union and Bangladesh.
The Union is Dhaka's main trading partner and, in 1998, it absorbed some 45% of Bangladesh exports (jute and by-products, clothing, frozen shrimps, food, chemical products). To date, the main EU interventions have been on agriculture, flood...