Brussels, 16/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - In an interview given to the French daily, Les Echos, published on Monday (EUROPE 9344), the European Commissioner for Trade, Peter Mandelson, says that he is “more open than others” about the question of obtaining a WTO derogation to help SMEs participate in the Union's public procurement markets. The US already benefits from this kind of derogation. For the last year France has been striving to convince its European partners to get the Union to...