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"Madam President, the negotiations in Cancún should have been an opportunity to take a first step towards fairer trade. However, they were scuppered. The developing countries reversed the traditional power relations within the WTO. This is an essential point to consider politically. But who will really benefit from this failure?
I note, for my part, that the developing countries have not gained anything specific in the application of the demands which they put on the Doha agenda. I imagine, like many here, that the United States is going to try and reinforce bilateralism for its own good, and I wonder how we Europeans are going to face the intensification of the trade war which threatens to ensue.
On balance, this failure appears harmful, at least in the short term. In the public's eyes, however, it has had the effect of raising more than ever the question of adjusting the balance between the North and the South. This is the overall problem to which we must now try and find an answer. We need to see how to respond to it and with whom.
This question is truly important because, for example, the interests of all the developing countries are not identical and their options with respect to the WTO do not yet appear to be very homogenous. In this context, which partner, which group can we count on in order to elaborate and engage in a strategy to relaunch the negotiations and reform the WTO?
Elsewhere, and on another level, we have, of course, understood the Group of 21’s intention to combat external and internal public subsidies in the agricultural sector. Should we not fear that some countries, Commissioner, will seize the opportunity of the end of the peace clause to launch a legal attack on our CAP, in order to achieve their objectives without needing to honour any politically negotiated guarantees in return? However things stand after Cancún, the answers appear to be less obvious than the questions."@en1
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