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"en.20030924.6.3-228"2
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substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3
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"Madam President, Commissioner, I shall not criticise either the Commission or the European Parliament. I shall just say that I personally have become aware that something important has happened with the ultimate collapse of the WTO Conference in Cancún. This need not, and must not, be the end for the WTO, but it means that the EU and the United States must adjust to a new situation. Until now, we have in actual fact completely dominated as actors in the WTO but, by setting the agenda ourselves, we have given the developing countries the feeling of being excluded and of having been ridden roughshod over.
When we prepare ourselves – and we prepare ourselves quite well – we naturally do so because we want to give a good account of ourselves, but we have not given enough thought to what is best for the world. The time when we could conduct this type of policy is now past. We must realise that the world’s most populous countries, such as China and India, and large producer countries, such as Brazil, are in the process of acquiring clear contours on the map of world trade, and the poorest developing countries are beginning to be noticed. It is important for us to acquire a new map of world trade."@en1
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