WTO Mini-Ministerial: What is left of the Doha development promises?

On Wednesday 28 June, the Heinrich Böll Foundation will host a press breakfast, to discuss the WTO Mini-Ministerial meeting scheduled to start in Geneva the following day.<br><br> The upcoming Mini-Ministerial meeting is widely regarded an eleventh hour attempt to rescue the "Doha Development Round" from impending failure. It will focus on the question of how much agricultural market access the EU and other industrialised countries will offer in exchange for better access of their industrial goods to developing markets.<br><br> Our guests at the breakfast represent leading policy experts, NGO representatives and European opinion- makers. They will address the questions: What is at stake at the Mini-Ministerial and what is left of the promises of the development agenda in the WTO? <br><br> <b>Guests:</b><br> <b>Sandra Polaski</b>, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York, and author of the study " Winners and Losers: Impact of the Doha Round on Developing Countries ", March 2006.<br><b> Yash Tandon</b>, Executive Director of the South Centre, Geneva, an inter- governmental think tank supported by more than 40 developing countries.<br><b> Ronnie Hall</b>, International Coordinator of Friends of the Earth International's Trade, Environment and Sustainability Programme, and active participant in the Our World Is Not For Sale network.<br><br> <b>Chair: </b><br> <b>Frithjof Schmidt</b>, Greens/EFA Member of the European Parliament and the EP Committees on Development and International Trade.