EU asks Blair to back more aid for world's poor

Global trade talks next week risk bypassing the needs of the world’s poorest countries, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned today.

EU asks Blair to back more aid for world's poor

Global trade talks next week risk bypassing the needs of the world’s poorest countries, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned today.

In a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair, Barroso said there was a risk that the talks would focus too much on demands made by rich. industrialised and rapidly developing countries at the expense of poorer nations.

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