Next year, the EU will take in ten new Member States. The year 2005 will then witness the abolition of the quota system on imports of textiles set in place within the WTO framework. In this context, the European textile and clothing sector, which has experienced many difficulties over recent decades but which has nonetheless managed to keep afloat, is now confronted by new challenges. It is to help it to raise these challenges that the European Commission adopted, on 29 October, a...