Press Release: Newshook: European trade ministers meet in Brussels in run up to WTO Hong Kong meeting. Report reveals role of corporate lobbyists in setting EU trade agenda

According to a report published on 21 November 2005 by Seattle to Brussels, a pan-European network of organisations campaigning on trade issues, EU trade policy is being driven by the demands of European businesses for new markets rather than by the needs of developing countries, European citizens or the environment.

• Primary Source

Seattle to Brussels Network: Publications: The EU Corporate Trade Agenda: The role and the interests of corporations and their lobby groups in trade policy-making in the European Union http://www.s2bnetwork.org/EU_corporate_trade_agenda.pdf

Seattle to Brussels Network: Homepage http://www.s2bnetwork.org/

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