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The 5th WTO Ministerial conference, which will take place in Cancun in September, seems to be governed once again by the requirements of free trade rather than by an approach that seeks to shift the balance back towards national sovereignties.
With regard to procedure, the Commission appears still to wish to use the negotiating mandate granted in 1999 for Seattle, which lacked relevance even then and is today completely out of date. As for the European Parliament, it is only consulted in the present resolution, which contains a brief debate and has no binding legal value. Negotiations will, therefore, once again be opened in conditions that lack transparency, which does not bode well.
Fundamentally, the issue at stake is the right of each people to determine the society in which it lives. In particular, this involves the right to choose its own farming model, as discussed superbly by Mrs Dominique Souchet during yesterday’s debate, the right to choose how its own public services operate (and their limits), the right to safeguard its independence or to apply the precautionary principle by banning certain imports. There is also the right freely to uphold a regional preference or a preference that will benefit poor countries, in order to make a choice that expresses solidarity."@en1
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