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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9668

27 May 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/development
Council invites EU to bolster implementation of action plan on “basic products” and EU-Africa partnership in support of cotton

Brussels, 26/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 26 May in Brussels, the Council of the EU underlined the opportunity to pursue and substantially strengthen implementation of the EU action plan, adopted in 2004 for helping poor countries dependent on basic products (particularly African cotton producing countries) tackle price fluctuations on the market. This is the main message of the conclusions adopted, without debate, on the action plan on basic agricultural product chains, dependency...

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