DDA Success or Failure EU Decides

Geneva - Trade ministers in two informal trade sessions yesterday and Wednesday put the European Union on notice that it must come up with a substantially revised market access offer on agricultural trade in the ongoing Doha Development Agenda by next Thursday or take the blame for the collapse of the four-year-old talks (WTD, 10/20/05).

EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson who felt the brunt of the criticism in Wednesday