25 août 2016
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Jacques Loyat, « 16. A post-Seattle Updating: a French Perspective », Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.7577
The failure of the Seattle conference emphasises major changes both in the comprehension of what is at stake in the negotiation and on the balance of power. Beyond the defence of pure commercial interests through liberalisation of markets, it conceals a more profound debate on the role of agriculture in the economy. In the first part, we will first recall some major events that have happened since the 1999 seminar. What European agriculture is aimed at is the question tackled in the second pa...