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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9654

1 May 2008
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
In order to avoid deadlock, Doha round must scale down its ambitions

The conclusion of the Doha Round on the foundations to be used by the negotiators is becoming harder and harder, if not impossible. The ministerial meeting planned for this month has been postponed to June, or even July, which is the last-chance month: if it takes any longer, the American elections will be too close at hand to conclude anything at all. There is nothing surprising about this scenario, in my view: the EU, Japan and Switzerland, and a few other countries besides, cannot think...

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