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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9705

17 July 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto/doha
Agriculture Ministers of EU present their wish-lists on eve of ministerial meeting in Geneva

Brussels, 16/07/2008 (Agence Europe) -On the eve of the WTO ministerial meeting to be held in Geneva on 21 July, and upstream of the extraordinary session of the General Affairs/External Relations Council to be held on 18 July, the Agriculture Council, meeting in Brussels on 15 July, took stock of the agricultural chapter of the Doha negotiations with Mariann Fischer Boel. The Commissioner for Agriculture presented the ministers with her analysis of the situation and of what can be expected...

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