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dezembro 5th, 2005

ASEAN alternative services proposal

4 December, 2005
ASEAN (fve members) alternative proposal to the Services Annex C for the draft ministerial text

Intense activity as General Council debates Hong Kong text

4 December, 2005
WTO members were engaging in intense informal negotiations anddiscussions on Friday, 2 December focused on how to respondto the revised draft Ministerial text to be transmitted to the WTO'sHong Kong Ministerial Conference starting 13 December.

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)

EU Proposed Language for NAMA from Green Room Meetings

4 December, 2005
a link to an EU non-paper which proposes language for NAMA. The non-paper was floated in the green rooms and widely rejected.

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.

Local onions, garlic, vegetables becoming rare under WTO

4 December, 2005
media release: The vegetables Filipinos consume may soon come only from Taiwan, mainland China, or the US rather than the Cordilleras or Ilocos as vegetable imports continue to push out local produce from the domestic market, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.

dezembro 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.

dezembro 2nd

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

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.