1.   Barriers were erected against bananas imported from Latin America, while preference was given to fruit produced in former European colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.

2.   Germans say the fruit from the former European colonies is of lower quality than Latin American bananas.

3.   He quickly secured the support of all the European nations and most former European colonies.

4.   Most of the countries affected by the dispute are former European colonies.

5.   The EU currently levies a lower tax on banana imports from former European colonies in the Caribbean than on other countries.

6.   These are former European colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific whose trade patterns would have been devastated by independence without some special treatment.

7.   These soldiers of Christ established European colonies in the Middle East and began to dream of world domination.

8.   Under the Rome accord, the EU gave preferential treatment to bananas from former European colonies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

9.   Patterson also said Caribbean countries should coordinate their efforts with former European colonies in Africa which export bananas.

10.   A group of Caribbean nations has endorsed Cuba for membership in a body of former European colonies that receives special trade benefits from the European Union.