EU ENLARGEMENT
April 1st, 2003
KEITH NUTHALLEASTERN European countries looking to join the European Union need to make efficiency improvements to their textile industries, so that they can face the challenge of membership and the impending abolition of quotas under the World Trade Organisations Agreement in Textiles and Clothing. So says the European Commission, which is planning to launch a major study on the impact of EU enlargement on eastern Europe's textiles and clothing sector.Brussels says that in many of these countries, "support will be needed for the inevitable intense restructuring ...
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