And This From The Guardian

France said on Friday the European Union had exhausted its scope for concessions on agriculture in world trade talks and could not give more ground in crucial ministerial negotiations in Geneva next week.
"We have a shared objective: to achieve a rebalancing of the concessions the EU has already made," French Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Idrac told a news conference after chairing a meeting of trade ministers and officials from the 27-nation EU.
"The European Union has run out of room for manoeuvre on agriculture and cannot go any further." French President Nicolas Sarkozy has previously accused EU trade chief Peter Mandelson of giving away too many farm concessions and winning little on industrial goods and services from big developing countries such as Brazil, India and China.
France holds the EU's presidency, making it a key player in brokering the bloc's response to any deal next week to rescue the World Trade Organisation's Doha talks for a global free trade deal which have dragged into their seventh year.
Without a breakthrough next week, the Doha round risks further years of delay as the United States turns its focus to November's presidential election and next year's change at the White House while the European Commission ends its term in 2009.
MANDELSON SAYS STRENGTHENED
Mandelson, speaking after addressing Friday's meeting, said he felt EU governments had strengthened his hand in pressing for more concessions from others in the WTO talks. "I feel stronger going to Geneva following the meeting," he told reporters.
"Member states strongly supported the request we have made for more market access in emerging economy countries. They want, as I do, that we get proper return for what we are putting on the table. There has to be balance."
Next week's meeting of about 30 trade ministers will aim for a deal on the core issues of farm and industrial goods.
The round was launched shortly after the 2001 terror attacks on the United States in a bid to give the global economy a boost and help poor countries export more. It has been stymied by rifts between rich and poor countries over how to free up trade.
As well as France, other EU countries are also concerned about the possible outcome of a deal.
Ireland accused Mandelson on Friday of contributing to the rejection of the EU's Lisbon Treaty by Irish voters last month with his WTO farm concessions, a diplomat at the meeting said. But many EU countries were more supportive of the British commission's efforts to squeeze concessions from WTO partners.
Pro-free trade Sweden said a deal was needed for "wider political and systemic reasons," echoing warnings from some top trade officials that a WTO flop would augur badly for attempts to hammer out a global climate change agreement next year.
Germany, the world's biggest exporter and whose support will be vital to Mandelson if a WTO deal is struck next week, said it wanted an improvement on proposals on the table at the WTO.
Europe's top business lobby also stressed the importance of opening up big developing economies under a WTO deal, saying in a letter to Mandelson that he had already offered open up Europe's markets in agriculture, industry and services.
"It is now time for our trading partners -- especially the emerging economies -- to reciprocate," the letter said.