France on Thursday warned Mandelson against making further concessions on
agriculture amid a global push to revive the stalled Doha round of trade negotiations. During a meeting with Mandelson in Paris, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy ‘firmly reminded’ the top Brussels trade negotiator that his existing offer to cut tariffs on farm goods ‘constituted a red line and exhausted the EU’s room for negotiation,’ a ministry statement said. … France – which insists European concessions should not go beyond the reform of the EU’s Common Agriculture Policy agreed four years ago –
threatened previously to veto any final trade deal, accusing Mandelson of overstepping his mandate with an October 2005 offer of further farm-tariff cuts.

I’m not shocked.