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"en.20120913.29.4-273-500"2
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"The Commission has signed a free trade agreement with six countries from Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. This agreement totally or partially liberalises the trade in certain agricultural products. Out of all the exports by these countries to the EU, bananas are the most important agricultural product, and North American multinationals their main producers, in extensive areas of monoculture in which locals’ working conditions come close to slavery. For these reasons, there are numerous organisations that have denounced the labour, social and environmental dumping practices, which are a result of this agreement and, more generally, a result of free trade and agriculture being subjected to World Trade Organisation rules. The safeguard clause and stabilisation mechanism proposed here will not be worth anything. Their weaknesses are numerous and their inefficiency is expressed in the very opinion of the Committee on Agriculture. The stabilisation mechanism will not be automatic, as the Commission will be free to decide whether or not to apply it. Parliament recognises its inability – and, we would add, its unwillingness – to contradict the Commission, in spite of all the propaganda surrounding its increased role in trade policy."@en1
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