Africa/Global: Learning the lessons of Cancun

The governance of the WTO should be improved by developing new rules around decision-making procedures in order to ensure that multilateral negotiations are democratic, accountable and transparent. A paper produced by the International Development Committee (IDC) on the collapse of the WTO talks in Cancun last year further says that the EU and the USA must not expect to set the agenda and that the EU needs to reform its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) "more radically and more quickly".