The Financial Times reports that "Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, was rebuked on Monday by a majority of the bloc’s agriculture ministers for offering big farm tariff cuts as part of renewed push to conclude global trade talks. Mr Mandelson, anxious to kick-start the Doha round of negotiations before US president George W. Bush loses his power to make deals in July, said the EU could offer cuts close to the 54 per cent demanded by developing countries if the US slashed its agricultural subsidies. However, a majority of the EU’s 27 farm ministers in Brussels said Mr Mandelson had offered too many concessions." The French seem particularly unhappy.
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