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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8750

17 July 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united kingdom/trade
London attacks EU's trade policy and calls for openness and liberalisation of markets "for benefit of consumers, tax-payers and economic growth"

Brussels, 16/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - The British government has recently published a White Paper on international trade and globalisation (entitled "Trade and investment White Paper: Making Globalisation a Force for Good", the entire text of which can be found at www.dti.gov.uk), in which London calls for the EU to abandon its "mercantilist approach" to trade negotiations at the WTO in favour of opening its own market to the whole world. "The mercantilist approach to negotiations, which...

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