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world trade Archive
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The rising cost of food
Posted on 21/04/2008 | 1 CommentThe rise in food prices around the world is yet another issue that should bring countries together, yet risks driving them apart. The reasons for the rapid rise in prices are fairly clear. There has been a big increase in demand driven by a rise... -
On another planet
Posted on 04/03/2008 | 1 CommentInteresting talk from Professor Tim Lang this evening on food security. (Read him on the Quotebank here.) He was spelling out the state of the world’s food supply and suggesting a few of the things that need to be done. A number of the points... -
Legal personality
Posted on 17/06/2007 | No CommentsThe British anti-European newspapers are concerned today about the prospect of the European Union acquiring “legal personality” as a result of the next European treaty. This was Article I-7 of the constitutional treaty of 2004, and the idea still sticks around. The papers object that... -
A good man in Africa
Posted on 03/06/2007 | 1 CommentThe latest stage in Tony Blair’s farewell tour – his speech in South Africa last Thursday – is one of the most frustrating. (Read the speech here.) It is one of the moments when the gap between motives and methods becomes most pronounced. Tony Blair... -
Trade on trial
Posted on 25/11/2006 | 1 CommentI was at a debate on Thursday evening about EU trade policy: is it, broadly speaking, doing the right things? The pro case was that international trade is a good thing, enabling countries to make and export whatever it is they do best and buy... -
Ecological self-sufficiency
Posted on 15/04/2006 | No CommentsAccording to the New Economics Foundation, the UK goes into ecological debt to the rest of the world on Easter Sunday (16 April). From tomorrow onwards, the British are living off the natural resources of other countries having exhausted their own. (Read the report here)... -
Infuriating
Posted on 03/04/2006 | No CommentsThe farewell article by Bill Emmott, outgoing editor of the Economist, is the usual mixture of insight and infuriation. You can read it here. The insight lies in his welcome for globalisation and the wealth and jobs it brings with it. Enabling companies to trade... -
The WTO and the EU post-Cancún
Posted on 12/01/2004 | No CommentsA submission by Federal Union to the House of Lords European Union Committee (Sub-Committee A) 1. The failure of the recent summit at Cancún should be an occasion to consider the direction in which global trading policies are going and the way in which they... -
Clare Short’s EU accusations seen as ‘wide of the mark’
Posted on 29/11/2003 | No CommentsPublished in The Times, 29 November 2003 Sir, From where does Clare Short get the idea that a renationalised trade negotiating authority would have been preferable to the EU at the WTO summit in Cancún? The European Commission’s negotiating mandate is agreed by those member states, after all, so the... -
The GATS proposals: only half the picture
Posted on 02/01/2003 | No CommentsA submission by Federal Union to the Department of Trade and Industry, 2 January 2003 1. This submission falls into four parts. First, what is Federal Union? Secondly, why we welcome the GATS process. Thirdly, some specific comments on aspects of the consultation document. Fourthly,...
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