ABSTRACT
The controversial Singapore issues supposedly played an important role in the collapse of the Cancun Ministerial of the WTO. Many believe that the Ministerial failed because the EU insisted on commencing negotiations on these issues while most developing countries were equally opposed to this agenda item. There are others who of course feel that the real intention of the EU was to balance progress on agriculture subsidies and hence they linked it to these issues, in particular investments (Jonquières 2003).
