Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-10-12-Speech-4-155"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-10-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061012.36.4-155"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-10-12-Speech-4-1562
lpv:speaker	lp:Tobias Pflüger2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2004-09-20--2007-03-13)3 member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Linkspartei.PDS (2006-10-05--2008-02-10)3 substitute; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". The Varela Suanzes-Carpegna report reads like a wish list compiled by European mega-businesses and Mercosur’s agri-businesses, who aim to establish, as quickly as possible, an EU/Mercosur free trade area. Neither compliance with human rights nor the effects on broad swathes of the population of both regions are treated as having any relevance whatever. While the report does highlight the costs that would result from a failure to adopt the agreement, it devotes not a single word to the social costs that an EU/Mercosur free trade area would bring with it, for the free trade agreements reached over the past decades show with terrible clarity that the liberalisation of trading relationships laid down in them does nothing to help increase prosperity. It is small-scale producers that are among the first to lose out as a result of free trade agreements, which facilitate access to the European market only for a few agricultural industry products. Where public procurement, services and investment rules are concerned, the EU is going on the offensive and demanding such things as equal access to Mercosur government tenders in the fields of water, transport and energy. It is clear that the EU has no desire to put issues of human rights and democracy at the heart of the trade agreements with Latin America; instead, it gives priority to free trade for businesses, as a result of which the poorer sectors of the population will lose out even more. Instead of a new round of negotiations towards the conclusion of the EU/Mercosur agreement, the EU should be beginning an inquiry into the social and economic consequences of liberalisation measures in Latin America."@en1

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