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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8400

14 February 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 37
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture/wto
Fischler says Harbinson's proposal could give advantage to larger exporters and, above all, slow negotiations down

Brussels, 13/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the day before the "mini-ministerial" meeting to be held in Tokyo begins, a meeting that will gather 25 of the 144 WTO members from 14 to 16 February, Commissioner Franz Fischler was highly critical when speaking to the press about Stuart Harbinson's draft modalities paper on agriculture (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.12, on the first Commission reaction, and p.11 on what the Union expected to come out of the Tokyo meeting). "In this draft, we...

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