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Copa lambasts Commission's Doha strategy.(European Policy News)
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October 20, 2006
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The European Commission's strategy in the Doha Round negotiations has been "wrong and fruitless", Rudolf Schwarzbock, President of the EU farming union Copa, declared on Wednesday.
"We strongly hope that the Commission will make use of the suspension of the negotiations to think over the strategy it has pursued to date," Schwarzbock told delegates at the Congress of European farmers in Strasbourg.
"I don't want to beat about the bush: the Commission's strategy has been wrong and fruitless. It has been to the benefit of neither the developing countries nor our own agriculture," he added.
Copa-Cogeca has been wary of the EU's stance in the Doha Round since the ...