Recently, the White House announced its intention to abolish subsidies to cotton growers and sent a draft to Congress.

Specifically, he argues that governments should abolish subsidies to fishing fleets and establish marine reserves.

And the purpose of the Uruguay Round, he reminds us, is to abolish such discriminatory subsidies to national industries.

The condition is that other countries abolish subsidies.

I personally believe that it must indeed be our aim in the long term to completely abolish environmentally harmful subsidies.

This move will open the floodgates to abolishing subsidies on a whole series of products which pseudo-scientific 'studies' will label as harmful to the environment.

When President Bush passed through Dakar, he said to me: 'I am in favour of abolishing subsidies.

The Commission is cruelly proposing with no turning back to abolish tobacco farming and subsidies by 2013.

By abolishing protective tariffs and subsidies many developing countries have become extremely vulnerable to heavy fluctuations in food and raw material prices.

Furthermore, we have been abolishing subsidies in the shipbuilding sector, yet it has continued to fall apart.