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EU, such as trade policy.
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EU's common agricultural policy was originally devised to secure free trade in farm products within Europe by paying the same guaranteed prices to all, and to use these payments to stabilise farmers' volatile incomes.
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The EU should focus on the single market, international trade, the environment and foreign policy.
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In a statement Tuesday evening, the EU's trade commissioner, Karel De Gucht, and the bloc's foreign-policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said they were "very concerned" about labor conditions in Bangladesh.
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The Commissioner for EU Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule told MEPs that any future "enhanced status" for Tunisia on trade relations had to ensure greater protection of fundamental rights.
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In return for dropping Mr Blair, Mr Brown secured the foreign-policy post for Lady Ashton, a career Labour party technocrat who has served as the EU's trade commissioner since October 2008.
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