Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the former US trade representative said that the UN goal of cutting world hunger by half by 2015 could only be reached by curbing European protectionism.

"Europe and other countries are increasingly using hygienic norms to exclude products," Zoellick said, adding that this could be seen as a new form of protectionism. "Of course we need an open market without quotas and tariff agreements."

Zoellick also said that agricultural subsidies in the West had to be cut in order to boost agricultural products from developing countries.

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