Peter Mandelson
Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson PCis a British Labour politician, president of international think tank Policy Network and Chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel. He served as Member of Parliamentfor Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, and held a number of Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was also the European Commissioner for Trade between 2004 and 2008...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 October 1953
offered sorts stance view
offered all sorts of positive, well-meaning, in my view misguided, justifications for a stance that is ... backward-looking, inward-looking, protectionist.
biggest created economic granted people space
Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.
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Are both sides prepared to persevere with the uncertainty of change?
defining expected meeting reasonably
Our meeting has been useful, not in narrowing the differences but in defining them, ... I feel we have done everything we could reasonably be expected to do in agriculture.
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I'm prepared to engage with them on this subject, but not in isolation.
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I have set in motion procedures to unblock the goods.
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I am pleased that the EU and China have been able to resolve this problem with the implementation of the Shanghai agreement in a way that preserves the agreement without unfairly penalizing retailers and importers,
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I feel hopeful and confident that the ultimate prize -- stable, inclusive government in Northern Ireland and an unbreakable peace -- will at long last be within our grasp.
exaggerate kong meeting
I do not exaggerate when I say that the Hong Kong ministerial meeting is on a knife-edge,
defining
not in narrowing differences but in defining them.
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It sometimes seems to me they won't be satisfied until they have seen proposals implemented that would ... wipe out large sections of agriculture in Europe,
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It will be the Commission doing the explaining, nobody else,
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I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
want conflict plunge
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.