Vol 46 No 10 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
Another rift opened between Washington and London/Brussels when the European Union's Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson (a close political ally of British Prime Minister Tony Blair) criticised the US failure to act after the World Trade Organisation ruled its subsidies to its local cotton farmers to be illegal and damaging to developing country cotton exporters...
Vol 46 No 6 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
African and Western reality: African officials involved in the current round of negotiations under EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson for new Africa-EU trade accords say there is heavy pressure on African governments to open markets to EU exports and weaken their own domestic processing industries (such as sugar in Uganda and tomato paste in Ghana)...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Egypt is usually run by generals but the NDP gives clever Gamal Mubarak a solid base and we hear he has been taking advice from political spin-doctors such as British New Labour's temporarily unemployed 'Prince of Darkness' Peter Mandelson...
Conflicting reports have emerged about British former Trade and Industry Minister Peter Mandelson’s offer to help the African National Congress 1999 election campaign...
Premier Tony Blair was quoted as saying that one of his political aims was to get Labour ‘to love Peter Mandelson’...