Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-07-02-Speech-3-165"
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"Mr President, we must beware of arousing too many expectations and too great ambitions on too many fronts by overloading the agenda for Cancun. Yet we cannot overemphasise that trade is good for both parties. There is plenty of research and empirical evidence supporting this view. We must concentrate on removing barriers and improving access because that benefits all parties to trade.
I express the hope that the CAP package of reform will convince our trading partners of our goodwill in this matter. But I cannot help wondering whether they, as well as we, will have to wait until the final text when the devil in the detail becomes available to us. I note the number of disputes that we have with our partners across the Atlantic, in particular one concerning GMOs and access to the EU market, which has now been referred to the disputes procedure. I hope that Cancun or the disputes procedure will enable us to resolve this sort of dispute because the EU must not be seen as a fortress of privileged countries.
Cancun is in the new world. I hope that will create an opportunity to bring the two sides, on either side of the Atlantic – the old world and the new world – together to resolve trade differences to the mutual benefit of our citizens and our economies. So I wish Commissioner Lamy and my colleagues who will go as part of the European Parliament delegation a successful meeting."@en1
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