RICH WORLD SUBSIDIES
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLPRESIDENT George W Bush has indicated the USA may abandon protective food production subsidies at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round. He told an ITV interview ahead of the Gleneagles G8 summit: "Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together." However, Tony Blair, this year's G8 president, was unable to overcome opposition amongst his fellow Europeans for clear communiqué commitments on scrapping food subsidies. This had been pushed ...
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