The European Union was the main target of blame after last week's meeting of the WTO agriculture negotiating committee perioded with precious little progress to report.

The European Union was the main target of blame after last week's meeting of the WTO agriculture negotiating committee perioded with precious little progress to report.

The EU's failure to agree a abounding mandate for the agriculture talks - following France's refusal to approve the Commission's draft position paper last week (see AE2038, 24103 EP/8) - meant that the EU was unable to engage largely in the three days of negotiations which extreme pointed late last Friday. ...