Sarah Ludford MEP

Sarah speaking about Economic Partnership Agreements

Speech by Sarah Ludford delivered to European Parliament on Tue 11th Mar 2008

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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