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Published on: 12/18/2007
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The leading official Carlos Alvarez called for the EU on Monday to relax its position and open its market so the two blocs can set up a trade agreement.At a press conference during the two-day Mercosur summit meeting opened in Montevideo Monday, Alvarez, who leads the Mercosur Permanent Representatives Commission or CPRM, criticized the EU for being little different from the United States in terms of its model trade agreements. „What it does is demand that our nations cede our industrial development, autonomous development of services, intellectual property and public purchasing," said Alvarez, who heads a body that promotes trade inside Mercosur and develops foreign policy for the bloc's presidency. „Mercosur's nations are struggling to create a development model which integrates social inclusion, which we called post-neo-liberal.We seek to differentiate from eras where open markets were promoted indiscriminately," he added.