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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9695

3 July 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto/doha
Commission compares figures with those quoted by Nicolas Sarkozy in his disagreement with Peter Mandelson

Brussels, 02/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 2 July 2008, the European Commission rejected the figures quoted by the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, in his disagreement with EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson about the World Trade Organisation's Doha trade round (see EUROPE 9694). Peter Mandelson's spokesman, Peter Power, explained that the idea that a WTO agreement on liberalising farm trade would lead to a 20% cut in EU farm production and a loss of 100,000 jobs in the...

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