EU....

[Via Simon linklets] This says a lot about the EU and the US...

The EU, you see, views U.S. donations of food to starving countries as a form of trade distortion -- and says that rather than giving food, the U.S. should give cash, which the local authorities could use to buy food -- presumably much of it from the EU. The EU complaint is part of a continuing effort to divert attention from the fact that everyone is saying the EU has to make a much better offer to allow market access to its own domestic agricultural market.

Aid is a distortion if it is given by the US but I lived in Africa and the French use aid to principally support their own companies. They gave cash or grants that had to be spent on goods and services from only their country. It hilarious for them to accuse the US of distorting when they are guilty of worse.