It would have been disastrous if he had been forced to ratchet back what the EU has put out so far. We hope the member states are giving their negotiators enough space that they can respond effectively to what we have put on the table. |
It's easy to make these grandiose commitments, and some will say he's playing to the gallery, and some will say he's making these lavish promises in the almost certain knowledge that the rest of the world can't or won't follow suit. |
Its a disappointing to me to see so many friends I have and people I know in the Democratic Party turning their back on free trade, ... The Democratic free-traders seem to have taken to the hills and unfortunately they seem to be dragging a number of Republicans behind them. |
Let's use what happened this summer to have a much clearer, better informed debate about globalization, the impact of China and India and how we should respond, |
must deliver substantial additional market access. |
My fear is that in lowering expectations for Hong Kong, we will cause the overall ambition for the round to fall. |
My task in Geneva is to reassure WTO partners that the EU remains firmly committed to this negotiation, |
negotiation and agreement, and not confrontation. |
Nobody by force of arms, use of violence, by bullying and intimidation is going to get any change to any decision ... that I, the Parades Commission or anyone else will have reached, |
not in narrowing differences but in defining them. |
Now, that may not be universal but I hope that they will consider on its merits what I've agreed, partly because it's good for Europe and good for China ... but also because there's no alternative to what I'm proposing. |
Of course, there's an investigation following claims of dumping, |
offered all sorts of positive, well-meaning, in my view misguided, justifications for a stance that is ... backward-looking, inward-looking, protectionist. |
on a knife edge. |
Our meeting has been useful, not in narrowing the differences but in defining them, ... I feel we have done everything we could reasonably be expected to do in agriculture. |