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The Doha summit is approaching and is due to take place in November 2001. After the failure of Seattle, Doha must be a success for the WTO, and if this is to happen, the United States is not to be counted on. Never in history has the hub of an empire conceded its hegemony to its far-flung outposts. The American superpower is giving up none of its claims, especially now it has the Texan, Mr Bush, in office, the man who perpetrated genocide on the children of Iraq. Who, apart from Europe then, can give in? And this is exactly what is happening.
First of all, we have reformed the CAP in order to cave in to the demands of the US Administration in the Uruguay Round negotiations. As consensus must be reached at Doha, however, giving in to the United States and the Cairns Group by abandoning our farmers to the productivist and ultraliberal global market is not an adequate approach. We also need the agreement of the poorest African and Asian countries, which also opposed consensus in Seattle.
This is the whole point of the new Council regulation, which concedes our customs duties on bananas, sugar and rice for the 48 least developed countries. Between 2006 and 2009, these three products will become entirely duty free. In the meantime, customs duties will be reduced by 20%, 50% and 80% by 2009.
Sudan will, therefore, be able to send us its sugar, free from customs barriers, by virtue of the fact that it is a poor country. Sudan is nevertheless able to find the resources to bomb its own villages that stand in the way of its oil wells and is also choosing to starve its inhabitants in the south of the country.
The Council regulation, based on the slogan ‘everything but arms’, is therefore, the height of hypocrisy because the additional income that Sudan, for example, will make as a result of the additional exports that we are giving it the opportunity to make, will buy it additional arms with which to fight the Christians in the south of the country.
The real problem, however, is the generosity of the socialists and the Christians, as combined in the person of our Commissioner, Pascal Lamy. Christian Europe is offering fundamentalist Sudan, which is of symbolic importance, the financial means to increase the martyrdom of its Christians in the south of the country.
This is all the more shocking because the 48 LDCs will act as intermediaries, flooding Europe with bananas, sugar and rice from countries other than those benefiting from a wide range of preferences. A precedent has already been set with garlic from China, for example, which is appearing in Europe via Malaysia, Jordan and other Trojan horse countries.
If we understand, however, that European integration is itself nothing more than a Trojan horse, in place to establish the ideological and trading empire centred on the United States, with outposts in every corner of the world, then we see that Mr Miranda has produced the report of a loyal servant of that country’s blueprint for the world."@en1
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