15/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Union is proposing to the World Trade Organisation granting observer status to the Multilateral Environmental Agency (MEA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda that "have already begun and could affect their future". The Europeans invoke "urgency" but, while waiting for the WTO to decide (doubtless not before the Ministerial session in Cancun in September 2003), they propose inviting these...