Farmers urge Government to veto WTO deal

FARMERS have called on the Government to veto an emerging World Trade Organisation deal on the basis it would wipe out Irish agriculture while business leaders have also decried the latest compromises on industrial goods.

The condemnation comes on the heels of a round of cuts to the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.

Talks on the Doha round have been stalled for months but the latest revised texts to emerge from Geneva looked set to break the deadlock.