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Sarah speaking about Economic Partnership Agreements

March 11, 2008 12:30 PM
By Sarah Ludford in European Parliament
Originally published by Sarah Ludford MEP

As a non-specialist in this area - unlike, probably, many of the other questioners - I am just interested to know how, and rather puzzled as to why, the opponents of EPAs made so much of the running in the press. Why was it not possible to get across better the advantages of EPAs? Is it simply that those opposing them did not accept the benefits of trade liberalization, which I do, and just wanted to keep protectionism?

Why is it that the Commission and others were not, perhaps, able to get their voices heard sufficiently in the press?

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