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The economic strength & influence of the European Union (EU) is described as having been hampered by the failure of the World Trade Organization (WTO) administration to launch a "Millennium Round" of multilateral trade talks during the 1999 WTO meetings in Seattle, & how the EU is attempting to ensure a new round of talks is examined. It is argued that the EU's economic power has been limited by intense competition with the markets of the US & Japan, increasing attention on the Pacific Basin, & the transition of certain nations in Europe & Asia into free market economies. These changes are held to have both increased the EU's trading opportunities & increased its competition. The EU's practice of establishing a number of special trade & investment relationships with different nations is discussed, noting positives & negatives associated with this approach. Suggestions are made for removing obstacles to the EU's progress & for initiating a new round of WTO talks. 2 Tables, 2 Figures. D. Weibel

The Doha development agenda : ambitions and achievements / Pitou van Dijck and Gerrit Faber -- Global trade reform and the Doha development agenda / Kym Anderson, Will Martin, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe -- Modelling global trade reform : some reflections / Michiel Keyzer -- Market access and the modelling of global trade reform : a comment / Joe Francois -- Services and the Doha development agenda : southern perspectives / Pierre Sauvé -- Improving special and differential treatment : some proposals / Bernard Hoekman, Constantine Michalopoulos, and L. Alan Winters -- The role of the G-20 / Jolanda E. Ygosse Battisti, Julia von Maltzan Pacheco, and Fabiana D'Atri -- Minimum conditions for a package deal : an African perspective / Dominique Njinkeu and Nicola Loffler -- Towards a development round / Pitou van Dijck and Gerrit Faber.

Radtke, Kurt W.: Introduction and overview. Feddema, Raymond: The WTO, governments and global business. Who decides the shape of international trade relations? Faber, Gerrit: Deepening of multilateral integration in the World Trade Organization. Van Dijck, Pitou: The EU's new strategies towards emerging Asia and Latin America. Kikuchi, Tsutomu: The political economy of "East Asian" cooperation. Towards better regional and global governance. Kagami, Mitsuhiro: Japan and Latin America. Yang Zerui: An assessment of the impact of China's WTO accession. A comparative perspective. Wiesebron, Marianne L.: Transformation in Latin America. Integration, cooperation and reforms. Vizentini, Paulo G. F.: Mercosur/L at crossroads. Difficulties in the integration process or neoliberalism's crisis? Cammack, Paul: Mercosur/L and Latin American integration. Wiesebron, Marianne L.: Who is integrating whom? Trade in the perennial North-South conflict