Brussels, 02/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption, on Thursday, of the own-initiative report by Helmuth Markov (GUE/NGL, Germany) on “trade and poverty”, the European Parliament showed how keen it was to set in place new international trade rules for combating poverty, reform the WTO and cancel the debt of all developing countries subject to certain conditions of transparency and redistribution of resources.
Considering that fair trade can be an effective instrument for reducing...