WTO ROUND MOVES
November 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled its strategy to kick-start the stalled World Trade Organisation (WTO) Doha Development Round, offering to drop its insistence that deals on the protection of investment rights, competition and other financial matters be written into a final agreement. It was the European Union's (EU) stubbornness over these issues that enraged many developing countries into refusing to sign a comprehensive communiqué at September's inconclusive WTO summit at Cancun. Now, a Brussels Communication (policy paper) accepts "the ...
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