by MONITOR
THE rift between France and the Czech Republic intensified over the weekend when President Sarkozy of France announced a 6.5 billion euro plan to support its ailing automobile industry and ignored protests from Prague over his remarks about pulling out French carmakers from the Czech Republic and relocating them in France. The Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, used his position as the current president of the EU Council of Ministers to call for an emergency EU summit to discuss the growing dangers of protectionism that could undermine Europe's single market. A red warning light over France's policy was also flashing in Geneva at the World Trade Organisation which is still hoping, against hope, to conclude the stalled Doha round of trade talks designed to give improved access to export markets for developing and developed countries. The WTO warned that its members are vulnerable to any new measure that closes off access or distorts competition.
STOP PROTECTIONISM
12/02/2009 00:00
Also in Holiday
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Spanish pensioners stuck at Palma Airport for fourteen hours
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Palma Airport passport control "collapse" put down to unscheduled flights
- Sunloungers set ablaze in Alcudia
No comments
To be able to write a comment, you have to be registered and logged in
Currently there are no comments.