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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8689

21 April 2004
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: EU-Mercosur negotiation: avoiding rhetoric and excessive ambition

What one wants is unacceptable to the other (and vice versa). The hesitations, delays, and little argumentative sentences the authorities on both sides periodically throw at each other confirm that negotiations between the EU and Mercosur are still running into serious obstacles. Both sides stress their will to reach agreement and underline its meaning and importance, but in reality, the economic content is still the subject of fundamental differences of opinion, for a very simple reason...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION