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- EU member states criticize commission banana
proposal
- BRIDGES Weely Trade News Digest, [19 February
1998]. The European Commission (EC) proposal for revising
its controversial banana import regime is criticized by EU
member states for including quantitative restraints on
banana imports, arguing that the proposal is not consistent
with WTO rules.
- EU Cardiff Meeting Discusses Millenium Round,
CAP, South Africa Trade Agreement
- Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest, 22 June
1998. After three years and 19 rounds of trade negotiations
through which the EU and South Africa have been far apart on
market access for industrial and agricultural products, new
offers on the table from both sides suggest that an
agreement could be reached by year's end. Opposition to
allowing certain South African farm products.
- EU tackles sex trade
- By Angus Roxburgh, BBC News Online, Friday 9
February 2001. A modern form of slavery is the smuggling of
women and children into Europe to be used in the burgeoning
prostitution and pornography business.
- A privatisers' hit list
- By Katharine Ainger, The Guardian, Thursday
18 April 2002. Demands by the European commission to
deregulate services spell disaster for the developing
world. Anti-globalisation protesters feel the World Trade
Organisation agreement known as Gats is a corporate boot
sale of essential services, from water to electricity to the
media and is an attack on democracy that will lock the world
into privatisation and deregulation of essential
services.