No clear concept

The newspaper reports on a plan for combating the food crisis which the European Commission will present tomorrow: "European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has no clear concept in response to the crisis. The document speaks of measures which should slow the rise in food prices ... such as promoting second and third generation biofuels inside and outside the EU. ... The document will draw fire, advising as it does a cautious opening of the EU to genetically modified foodstuffs, the cultivation of which is limited in Europe, as opposed to everywhere else in the world."

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