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The European Union and Current WTO Negotiations
Introduction This chapter focuses on the status of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and the current round of negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO). This round of negotiations is of crucial importance since it will define the multilateral rules for trade for years to come. Since the conclusion of the Uruguay Round (1994), the…
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The stalemate in the Doha Development Agenda negotiations
The complex negotiations of the so-called Doha Development Agenda (DDA) seem to have definitively ground to halt at the end of July. Not that progress in the negotiations had ever been particularly fast since 2 November 2001, when they were launched in the Qatar capital. It can hardly be claimed that optimism had ever prevailed…
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Relating to India: the different approaches of the United States and the European Union
In an earlier issue of this magazine we analysed the powerful rise of China and India and the consequences for international scenarios in the coming decades. The extent of this deep change is revealed by the fact that for the first time since the industrial revolution the greatest growth in the world economy will not…
