MEPs approve controversial banana deal

The 2009 Geneva agreement on trade tariffs for bananas from Latin American countries, which is designed to end the longest-running dispute in the history of international trade, received the backing of the European Parliament on the 3 February 2011. MEPs warned, however, that this deal cannot reconcile the interests of all parties, including those of EU banana producers.

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European Parliament: Press Release, 3.2.11: Parliament backs accord aimed at ending 16-year banana war http://www.europarl.europa.eu/en/pressroom/content/20110203IPR13101/html/Parliament-backs-accord-aimed-at-ending-16-year-banana-war

ESO: Background information: 2010/314/EU: Council Decision of 10 May 2010 on the signing and provisional application of the Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela and of the Agreement on Trade in Bananas between the European Union and the United States of America http://www.europeansources.info/record/2010-314-eu-council-decision-of-10-may-2010-on-the-signing-and-provisional-application-of-the-geneva-agreement-on-trade-in-bananas-between-the-european-union-and-brazil-colombia-costa-rica-ecuador/

ESO: Background information: Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament - Biennial Report on the Special Framework of Assistance for Traditional ACP suppliers of Bananas, March 2010 http://www.europeansources.info/record/communication-from-the-commission-to-the-council-and-the-european-parliament-biennial-report-on-the-special-framework-of-assistance-for-traditional-acp-suppliers-of-bananas-2/

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