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...Gaulle has warned the Common Market nations, particularly Germany, that unless they can agree on common international food tariffs for meat, rice, and dairy products by December 31, the EEC might well "disappear." Last week France's agricultural minister Edgar Pisani left a crucial meeting in disgust, admonishing Germany for its failure to bargain and once more repeating de Gaulle's ultimatum. To lend credence to his threat, the French President at about the same time announced a press conference in mid-January, almost exactly one year after the conference at which he vetoed Britain's request to enter...
...Brussels negotiations last week, France's Minister of Agriculture Edgard Pisani threatened "extreme consequences" if De Gaulle's deadline is not met, and Paris warned that it would hold Germany responsible if the Market broke up. What the Germans feared was that once they give in on farm prices, France would refuse to come across on the "Kennedy round," whose tariff cuts would favor German industry more than the French. But France countered, in effect, that the U.S.'s own position for the Kennedy round would not be worked out until the spring, so that advance commitments...
...fact, though illegal raids and destructive boycotts by farmers have become increasingly common over the past few years, no French government has dared take action. Last week, armed with an ambitious new agricultural reform law, Agriculture Minister Edgar Pisani set out instead to reorganize a chaotic farm structure that, as one French farm leader cracked, "makes the United States problem of overproduction seem simple by contrast...
Major antagonists were the French delegation, headed by Agricultural Minister Edgard Pisani. and the West German group, headed by West German Agricultural Minister Werner Schwarz. Chairman of the conference last week was West Germany's Alfred Muller-Armack, who was kept so busy trying to keep peace among the two warring delegations that he had to retire at one stage because of his heart condition...
...Communist campaign boomeranged completely. U.S. arms were unloaded at European ports. Says Ferri-Pisani: "Brown was decisive. He was the only one to back us before we even had a union...