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Europeans label Bush a `protectionist'

INTERNATIONAL TRADE The US president is set to arrive in Europe this week amid rows over some very contentious issues, such as agricultural subsidies and steel tariffs

REUTERS , BRUSSELS

"We undoubtedly have problems and nobody is denying it," he told reporters during an EU-Latin America summit in Madrid.

"We have a relationship with the US that is sufficiently mature ... to be able to admit these realities. That being said, we have enormous trade with the United States and this type of problem affects a very limited part."

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