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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8405

21 February 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture council/wto
Ministers behind Fischler in rejecting Harbinson's proposals

Brussels, 20/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - During Thursday's Council, the Agriculture Ministers of the EU Member States united behind Commissioner Franz Fischler in rejecting the proposals put forward by Stuart Harbinson on liberalisation of farm trade submitted last weekend in Tokyo to the members of the WTO (see EUROPE of 18 February, p.11). A large majority of Member States asked, like Mr Fischler, that a second version of the Harbinson paper taking account of the four main concerns should be...

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