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"Once again, Brussels has given in to non-European interests and abandoned in the middle of nowhere the principles that it claims to defend in relation to development, social and environmental clauses, support for its overseas territories, and so on. No principle or value is upheld in the face of the will to impose on all nations the laws of the market and free trade, no matter what the economic and social consequences.
The Geneva Agreement will not put an end to the trade war that pits us, in fact, against the United States, since, at the same time as it was selling off the banana sector in Europe and in the ACP countries, in exchange for the legal disputes at the WTO being dropped, the Commission was negotiating even more advantageous agreements with a handful of Central and South American countries. Who actually believes that the signatories to the Geneva Agreement will put up with second-rate treatment for very long?
We must apply Community preference and impose our social, environmental and safety standards on those who wish to export to us. We must demand reciprocity and access to foreign markets for our own products. We must put a stop to this headlong flight towards globalised free trade, which benefits no one, except perhaps China."@en1
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