During the night of 31 July to 1 August after arduous negotiation, the 147 member nations of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) adopted, in Geneva, a framework agreement to reactivate the Doha Development Programme after talks failed in Cancun in autumn 2003. The decision taken by the WTO General Council is published in our EUROPE/Documents series, in French and English. (On the subject of negotiations in Geneva, see EUROPE of 3 August, page 4, and also 29 July, p.5; 30 July, p.7; and 31 July,...