A challenge is not necessarily a threat, ... there are growing public job fears and sometimes bitter questioning of whether we are giving away too much in the name of free trade. |
after receiving a full report from the security forces and on the advice of the police this morning. |
All of us together will have to put figures on the reduction of distorting subsidies, as well as the elimination and disciplining of export refunds or other export competition mechanisms, ... That includes putting dates on the phasing out of agriculture export subsidies and front-loading them as much as we can. |
Are both sides prepared to persevere with the uncertainty of change? |
As far as I am concerned, when devolution starts on Thursday the ... IRA will appoint their own representative to the decommissioning commission, |
As for realism -- at this point in the talks, I am looking first to the United States for more of this. |
At the present time there is not enough consensus amongst the players about how we can reach this ambitious outcome, |
Brazil and the European Union share understanding on what we want to see in domestic reforms in agriculture both in the EU and the United States and increasingly share understanding in market access as well on agriculture. |
But my (EU) member states will simply not accept further first moves from the EU which are pocketed without parallel moves by others, |
By any measure what we are putting forward is a very deep cut, |
China has a responsibility (to ensure) that no artificial, unreasonable barriers remain in place to European goods sold to Chinese markets. |
China is not yet qualified to receive the recognition of market economy status by Europe. There are technical criteria which China needs to fulfill, in which it's making progress towards fulfilling. |
common and coordinated platform. |
continues to keep everything else blocked at the gate, we cannot get to Hong Kong in the shape we need. |
Demanding more and more in agriculture, without proper balance in commitments from others in agriculture and outside of agriculture, does not add up to deal making. |