Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-24-Speech-3-224"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference (Cancún, 10-14 September 2003)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030924.6.3-224"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-24-Speech-3-2252
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean-Louis Bernié2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2003-01-29--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (2001-07-05--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the WTO negotiations have broken down but we are not making too much of an issue out of this because we believe that no agreement is better than a bad agreement. ‘Why?’ and ‘who gains from the talks breaking down?’ are the two questions that must be asked following Cancún. I agree that it is difficult to get 160 countries with very divergent interests to agree, but did the Union not commit a strategic error? Did it not negotiate naively before the negotiations? Should the Union have spoken with a single voice by giving the Commission an exclusive mandate regardless of the skill of the negotiators? Would it not have been preferable and more effective to conclude appropriate agreements like the G21, for example, rather than aligning ourselves in advance with the United States on the issue of farming? How, indeed, can we imagine that, in the period running up to the elections, President Bush would sacrifice his farmers and his agri-food industry? There was therefore no possible between North and South as was bitterly observed on the issue of cotton, a highly symbolic dossier. The fact that the World Bank is telling African countries to produce on a massive scale and also to change crops is truly unacceptable. The European Union, which did not hesitate to sacrifice its electors by forcing through the CAP reform in order, supposedly, to reach a position of strength at the negotiating table, is in a delicate position. The USA is still helping out its farmers and is starting to sign bilateral agreements. Is the Union willing to do the same and to freeze its reform of the CAP?"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"rapprochement"1

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