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. 1 8 INTERNATIONAL j \ EDITION 45 p Finance ministers ODAY IN turnon 1pTJHE TIMES Delors OPEN DAY From George Brock rm IN LUXEMBOURG EC FINANCE ministers Iasi night fired a relentless bar- rage of criticism and com- - plaint at Jacques Delors proposals to boosr the Euro- pean Community’s budget by 30 per cent — at a time when most of Europe's treasuries are tightening their bells. The ministers enjoyed their first opportunity to lay into the ambitious plans laid earli- er this year by rhe French The Duke of Kent president of the European leads Britain's Commission. The Danish ref- Freemasons who are erendum has altered the com- doing their bit for plexion of every one of the hundreds of weekly Commu- glasnost nity meetings. An embold- Life <& Times ened Danish fishing minister Page I yesterday asked for a larger quota of sole for his country's fishermen. In another pan of OPEN the building, the finance min- isters scented blood. The DOOR blood belongs to M Delors. i ’ in KiHfttinier " 1 The discussion, one of his aides admitted, was *'a little Summit guard: Brazilian troops looking out for trouble from the cable car station on top of the Sugar Loaf mountain in Rio de Janeiro rough". M Delors is bound by the Community’s hasty consensus that the Danes' re- jection of the Maastricht trea- Watchdog ty can safely be ignored. Yesterday, adjusting only a isolated few Heseltine figures Bush as UK to take account of orders BT a recent deal to reform the backs mines common agricultural policy. to cut M Delors repeated his re- Michael Heseltine signalled quest for an additional £14 a more interventionist ap- billion between next year and trade to proach at the and agrees Rio treaty phone bills 1995. The increases would industry department by pay for the integrated foreign, The door to equal suggesting electricity com- By RossTieman industrial and research poli- opportunities may From Michael McCarthy, environment correspondent, in rio de Janeiro panies should not turn their INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT cies framed by Maastricht. have been pushed too ' on villages in backs mining will sign the not The next few hours made vigorously, BRITAIN the amount the Third Mr Howard’s announce- much money they would have the industry says a their negotiations with Brit- OFTEL. phone brutally dear that a large world treaty on wildlife at World countries say the in- ment in Rio is likely to shore to provide. The government startling report ish Coal on future energy watchdog, demanded yester- majority of governments the Earth summit in Rio dustrialised world must give. up Britain's reputation. “The would make a declaration prices and demand. day that BT should cut its think that Delors has over- Life& Times Britain's that M de Janeiro, the environ- decision means biodiversity convention is the when it signed the treaty that bills reg- Speaking at the confer- phone and proposed reached himself on the Com- Page 4 most of the 19 aid donor first international that it did not accept that interpre- ence of the Union of Demo* ment secretary announ- treaty ulations that are the first ex- munity’s future finances. nations of the OECD, the wfll protect the earth’s ani- tation- Mr Howard said that plicitly designed to control crane Mineworkere In ced yesterday. The entire budget bartle Organisation for Economic mals and plants and their this view was shared by all the the costs for domestic con- Weymouth, the president of The decision to sign the turns on Germany, whose net OPEN Co-operation and Develop- hahitats," said. European Community states. the board of trade also biodiversity convention effect- he “The UK sumers. ment, are likely to sign. The contribution to Brussels of £6 ively government wholeheartedly He added that the rules of the Sir Bryan Carsberg, the di- ROAD warned the companies that leaves the Bush adminis- billion a year is three times group's members had ex- supports this objective. conference of the parties had rector-general of telecom- they risked losing a national, tration isolated in its deter- larger than Britain's, the next pressed serious reservations “But when you sign a con- to be decided by consensus, so munications at OfteJ, put resource by switching for rmi nation not to agree the highest payer. Horst Kohler, when the text was adopted in vention you are doing more that “they could reflect Brit- forward proposals for BT to economic reasons to other proposals. the German finance Nairobi two weeks ago. view”. deputy envi- than making a statement of ain's fix prices at an average of 7.5 energy sources r..: . Page 8 -Midiad HowanL the minister, said the new budget Japan, which is still formally prindple; you are committing per cent below the rate of ronment secretary, said John Washington has been the undecided, indicated yester- was not bill for Maas- yourself to a binding obliga- sharply criticised for its refus- inflation during the next four Major will sign the conven- tricht and immediately raised Petrol at that it also sign. day may tion. That is why we have had al to sign the summit treaty. It years. The changes would tion on Friday, but be will the subject of the Communi- to take our time over this fears that the provisions take effect from August next record price attach to it a declaration The government has dearly ty’s little Danish difficulty. position,’’ preferred to risk the important Mr would constrain the growth of year and are expected to cost which makes dear how Brit- treaty’s Kohler said the Petrol prices will hit record Howard added. than million Herr bud- ambiguous language on fi- the its biotechnology indus- BT more £100 a ain interprets the disputed get debate was an opportuni- levels today as the cost of a we first looked at year. if finandal clause. Aitide 21 nance, potentially commit- “When try. Mr Howard said that he However, the com- ty for the Community to gallon of four star rises by the text identified some rejects covers new aid for devdoping ting aid donors to signing a we hoped President Bush could pany the package. Sir E2.45p. Oil com- demonstrate its finandal pru- 4.Sp to of blank cheque, to the oppro- points of difficulty. We have find a way to sign at a later Bryan said he would refer the countries the Third World to to rhe panies face the prospect of been working very hard to to the dence and respond and the prime minister had brium that a refusal to sign date. oomparty Monopolies as fears of ordinary people. De- strong criticism recom- would provoke among envi- overcome them and we have After the announcement and Mergers Commission. France at half-price: insisted that Britain should cisions were made too far mended pump prices over- now succeeded in finding sol- The present control is infla- tokens towards not be forced to make any ronmental pressure groups at Andrew Lees, campaigns di- ' cheap previous record of from ordinary citizens, who take the “open-ended commitment". home and for Mr Major utions to these difficulties.” rector for Friends of the tion minus 6.25 per oent, but accommodation and at the start of Oftel do not understand why Brus- £2.40, reached while he is in Rio. Environ- Mr Howard explained that Earth, said: “The British gov- hopes that the tighter The declaration will not be sels should be richer while travel plus a review of a . Page 2 will the Gulf war — mentalists at the conference the disputed treaty clause im- ernment will now come under regime force the com- legally binding, but it will national treasuries had to cut surreal exhibition pany to provide better value that Britain re- were already saying yesterday plied that aid donor countries increased pressure to protect make dear Continued on page 20. col 1 ' for erode Life & Times No sex please gards the “amount needed” they were considering enter- could be fold by the recipi- wildlife habitats in the UK. money and to barri- ers to competition. Sir Bryan Page 5 as the sum the developing ing Britain in their list of the ents, in the conference of tile Its record to dale is utterly A quarter of schools have no Hurd dears way, page 14 five parties to the treaty, how dismal” said he also expected the pro- sex education policy in spite -countries say they want and summit's worst nations. posals to stimulate economic of statutory requirement Jeremy Leggett, scientific a growth by reducing business since September 1987, ac- director of Greenpeace, said: costs. cording to a survey of educ- “We are disappointed they backs attack He defended his decision ation authorities in Eng- Government couldn’t have signed at the WHICHOFTHESE not to limit profits at BT. land and Wales Page 3 opening of the Earth summit, which last year amounted to instead of getting things off to £3.07 billion, or E97 a second. LANGUAGESWOULD YOU cine on royal press coverage a bad start by havering." Everest He said the price cap gave the Paddy Ashdown welcomed company an incentive to im- UKE TOSPEAK? A diary found high on the political correspondent By Sheila Gunn, the announcement “In the prove efficiency, and would northeast ridge of Everest Patrick Cor- before her marriage, was re- final days of the summit, the near the body of a climber THE government formally speaking after Continued on page 20. col 3 British government must now its the Conservative MP, ported as saying that she may yield, dues to the disap- declared backing yester- mack, said: “There can few less agreed to talk to Morton put added pressure on Presi- pearance ten years ago of day for the Press Complaints be Mr Man in the news, page 2 Bush," the leader of the Commission’s condemnation agreeable sights than that of because she believed it was dent the _ British .mountaineers Leading article, page 17 tr important suffer- Liberal Democrats said.