A possible offer. It comes as no surprise that the initiative by Pascal Lamy and Franz Fischler to present a new European position on the agricultural plank of trade negotiations at the WTO should have caused such a lively and impassioned debate. EU agricultural organisations are vehemently opposed to this; France thinks that the very fact of offering significant concessions at this time (before other main players in world trade have given any appreciable openings) is a serious tactical...