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PRESS RELEASE FROM THE CENTRE FOR THE NEW EUROPE http://www.cne.org
9:30am CET 5th September 2003
For Immediate Release

PRE-CANCUN WTO MEETING REPORT
SHOWS EU TRADE BARRIERS
KILL ONE PERSON EVERY 13 SECONDS

A new report, EU Trade Barriers Kill, published today in the run-up to the Cancun ministerial
meeting of the WTO by the Centre for the New Europe, the Brussels-based think tank, analyses the
impact of EU trade regulations and barriers on the developing word.

The text of the report, by Stephen Pollard, Alberto Mingardi, Dr. Sean Gabb, and Cecile Philippe is
below.

The key findings are:

6,600 people die every day in the world because of the trading rules of the EU. That is 275
people every hour.

In other words, one person dies every 13 seconds somewhere in the world - mainly in Africa -
because the European Union does not act on trade as it talks.

If Africa could increase its share of world trade by just one per cent, it would earn an additional
£49 billion a year. This would be enough to lift 128 million people out of extreme poverty.

The EU's trade barriers are directly responsible for Africa's inability to increase its trade and thus for
keeping Africa in poverty.

If the poorest countries as a whole could increase their share of world exports by five per cent,
that would generate £248 billion or $350 billion, raising millions more out of extreme poverty.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Tim Evans (President, CNE) +44 07956 969523
Stephen Pollard (Senior Fellow, CNE) +44 07956 118035 Alberto Mingardi (CNE Italian Visiting
Fellow) +393396021870 Dr. Sean Gabb +44 07956 472 199 sean@libertarian.co.uk

The Authors

Alberto Mingardi is a leading Italian journalist and scholar. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre
for the New Europe: www.cne.org

Cecile Philippe is a French academic and writer. She is also the director of the major French free
market think tank the Molinari Institute:www.institutmolinari.org

Stephen Pollard is a prolific journalist who lives and works in London. He is also a visiting fellow at
the Centre for the New Europe: www.cne.org and www.stephenpollard.net

Dr. Sean Gabb is editor of Free Life, the journal of classical liberal ideas. He is also a prolific writer
and lectures in the social sciences:www.seangabb.co.uk