Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-31-Speech-3-121"
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"Mr President, I would like to thank Erika Mann for all her work on this report and for her willingness and openness to at least consider other perspectives and views. However, I do still have some concerns about it.
Firstly, there is at least a question mark over whether now is the right time, politically, to be advancing a policy of what is essentially a bilateral free trade area. We are in a time when the multilateral system is in crisis. We have therefore to consider what political message we are sending by doing that.
Secondly, my concern is that by pursuing extremely controversial issues such as the liberalisation of investment, public procurement and services in a projected transatlantic free trade area, other countries could well perceive that as the EU and US setting the stage for transferring the negotiations over to the global level. As you know, they have been extremely highly contested in the WTO framework.
Finally, on the issue of regulation and harmonisation, in spite of amendments and some nice rhetoric to the contrary, there is a risk that we will see a levelling down – rather than a levelling up – of hard-won environmental health and consumer standards."@en1
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