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I can see a number of differences with standard French agricultural policy there in the excerpt you quote. What's your WTF referring to?
The EU should focus on stopping the harm it's doing with its export subsidies before considering agricultural policy as a cog in arranging a new world order.
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the necessity to guarantee food security, particularly for developing countries, and by highlighting the dangers inherent in an aggressive EU export policy.
As for US-orchestrated globalisation, I'm dead against, but perhaps that's just me.
Seems to me the EU project is part of a multipolar movement?
The rest of the recommendations are fair enough, and for the record I'm also happy to have Cioloş. I just thought the bit on multipolarism and encouraging EU clones was weird in a text on agriculture.
I think this is above all the reference in that text. They do after all say:
We must reassert the need for global co-ordination of economic policy, for the democratization of negotiation processes, and for the respect of collective interests.
As the EPAs seem less harmful than the Doha round this is not a bad thing on account of getting a global arrangement. Better nothing than Doha. But the accompanying construction of regional trading blocs in the service of the EU market is a questionable matter.
in the service of the EU market
I agree.
Of course it's all rather more complicated and IMO the best thing we can do is not interfere more, since we Europeans have a long history of screwing things up. Which is sometimes remembered!
Should the EU really be doing that? En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
For accounting purposes (who pays and who gets what) those boundaries still exist. But for people (culture) they are far less important. You can't be me, I'm taken
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