On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:45:23AM +0100, Martin Vlietstra wrote: > The answer to this one will be political. If the US is to persuade the EU > to postpone things again, what will the US offer in return? Questions > concerning Iraq will almost certainly be on the negotiating table. It also > depends on who Bush's successor is (who will still be in his or her first > year of office)
Well, we can encourage the EU to not bend to pressure to extend this again. Here's the contact page for the Trade Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/gentools/contact_en.htm When I messaged them I added that if they feel that they need to extend it, they should strongly consider limiting it to 2004 so that it becomes the problem of a single administration (and thus can't be waved off as something a previous administration agreed to). Paul
