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[WTO Cancun] Welcome to the EC's Hall of Shame
by CEO (posted by Het Rooje Nest) Tuesday September 02, 2003 at 02:16 PM

In the run-up to the decisive WTO summit in Cancun (September 10-14), CEO has launched a new website exposing the shameful record of the European Commission (EC) and Trade Commissioner Lamy in WTO negotiations.


http://www.wtocancun.com/ features ten case studies, each with a cartoon caricature of Commissioner Lamy in action.

The case studies show how, in stark contrast to its self-proclaimed goals of "harnessed, equitable globalisation", the Commission consistently promotes the interests of big business at the expense of the world's poor and environmental sustainability. Case studies document the Commission's push for policies that kick the development
ladder out from under the world's poorest countries, its addiction to undemocratic alliances with big business and the ever-widening gap between EC rhetoric and reality.

Visit the European Commission's Hall of Shame:
http://www.wtocancun.com/


P.S.: if you have a website and would like to link to the Hall of Shame, we have a ready-made icon for you to use as a link. The snippet of code below is an example of how you might like to use it:

<imgsrc="http://www.corporateeurope.org/images/LamyShameIcon.jpg" border="0" alt="EC hall of shame">

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