Archive

December 5th, 2005

The Doha Deception Round: a recipe for unemployment

4 December, 2005
No matter what kind of deal is patched together in Hong Kong, the fundamental rules of the WTO are a recipe for job destruction.

Keeping Hong Kong On Line

4 December, 2005
Trade ministers of the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, Japan and Australia meeting here on Saturday in an informal session hosted by the United States agreed broadly on what can be delivered in next week's Hong Kong trade conference for least-developed countries

United Kingdom recommends radical reform of CAP over next 10 to 15 years - Lively reactions from Commissioners Fischler Boel and Mandelson

4 December, 2005
Ten days off the ministerial meeting of the WTO in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, on 2 December, published a document proposing a radical reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

December 4th

300 'troublemakers' on official blacklist

3 December, 2005
As many as 300 militant protesters due to fly in for this month's WTO ministerial meeting have been put on an official blacklist and will be denied entry into Hong Kong, security sources have revealed.

December 2nd

US Strategy for The Final Days

1 December, 2005
In the remaining days before the World Trade Organization's Hong Kong trade ministerial conference, the United States aims to keep the focus on agriculture especially the market access pillar which lies at the heart of the four year old trade negotiations

Second draft Ministerial Text out

1 December, 2005
The second draft Ministerial Text that was submitted to WTO Members this evening

EU 'non-paper' response to draft Ministerial Text

1 December, 2005
The 'EU Non-paper' that the EC floated in a green room meeting early this week as a response to the November 26 Draft Ministerial Text.

Another Ministerial Draft

1 December, 2005
A revised draft ministerial text for this month's World Trade Organization's sixth ministerial conference in Hong Kong was circulated to members yesterday, including new language on 'parallel elimination' of all forms of export subsidies and bracketed language on an 'early harvest' of trade-related measures for four West African cotton producing countries

December 1st

African and European farmers say: No to Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and the ACP countries and no to a WTO agreement in Hong Kong.

30 November, 2005
joint press release of African and European farmers regarding the WTO and EPA negotiations

IBON urges no expansion of agricultural liberalization at WTO December meet

30 November, 2005
Media release: Independent think-tank IBON Foundation urges government negotiators to resist further liberalization of the agricultural sector at the upcoming Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO).