The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament is calling on the EU to take a case to the World Trade Organisation in response to US President Trump’s illegal trade tariffs on steel and aluminium. Greens/EFA President Ska Keller comment: "The US has imposed illegal measures that must be challenged in the WTO. The EU has spent enough time trying to placate a US...
moreTrump wants the law of the strongest instead of the strength of the law! Thus we have to safeguard multilateralism. With his arbitrary tariffs, Trump wants to destroy the World Trade Organisation and the few rules that exist for globalisation. Trump must not succeed with his strategy! We need a rule-based international trade system. And we need to create a...
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The European Parliament will this evening hold two key debates on trade - on President Trump’s trade tariffs and the EU’s new anti-dumping legislation, which is due to be voted on tomorrow. The Trump administration is due to make a final decision on tariffs for steel and aluminium from the European Union on 1 June.
Greens/EFA co-president Ska Keller comments on Trump's...
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Press release
The Council has approved the Commission's mandate to negotiate the establishment of a multilateral court for the settlement of investment disputes (MIC).
Greens/EFA co-president Ska Keller comments:
"This is little more than a re-branding exercise. Re-packaging the old system of investor privileges as a "court" system does not alter the fundamental...
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The European Parliament debates US President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium.
Greens/EFA co-president Ska Keller comments:
"Trump isn't just threatening trade tariffs, he wants to tear up the entire international order. Whether it is leaving the Paris Climate Agreement, threatening the Iran nuclear deal, or bypassing the WTO, he is pushing an...
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Press release
At today's EU-Japan summit, political agreement was reached on the EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement (JEFTA). It would be the biggest ever FTA signed by the EU. Negotiations are now expected to continue at the technical level, despite the fact that many critical and highly political issues are yet to be decided on.Greens/EFA co-president Ska Keller...
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The European Parliament has today voted in favour of CETA. Commenting on the vote, Greens/EFA co-president Ska Keller comments:
"The European movement for fair trade is a huge success. They did not win today, but the large mobilisation is a major achievement nonetheless. It is a testament to the tireless campaigning of civil society that the majority in favour of CETA...
moreTrade Agreements can be a powerful tool to improve people´s life and create fair trading rules. This agreement does not. We as Greens can’t vote in favour. The Ecuador Trade Agreement does not live up to the criteria we put on trade agreements:
In the last weeks and years, we got many letters, calls and mails by the Ecuadorian civil society, they are very concerned that...
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Democracy
An inter-institutional agreement should make sure that national parliaments are asked for opinion before the Council gives a mandate to the Commission for trade negotiations.
The European Parliament must give an opinion even before the Commission formulates its draft mandate to the Council. We want to give the EP the right to co-legislate the mandate.
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moreThis text was published as a blog entry of Ska on the Website "TTIP-Beware what lies beneath"
In recent days, bereft supporters of the EU-Canada deal CETA have unleashed a barrage of attacks against a small regional parliament for doing what it’s constitutionally mandated to do; vote. Contrary to the usual accusations of a democratic deficit, the EU is now being branded...
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