{"id":89255,"date":"2024-04-29T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T04:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/?p=89255"},"modified":"2024-05-06T12:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:31:06","slug":"handelsgerechtigkeit-das-versprechen-zur-eu-parlamentswahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archiv.power-shift.de\/en\/handelsgerechtigkeit-das-versprechen-zur-eu-parlamentswahl\/","title":{"rendered":"For a fair EU trade policy! Send your candidate an email"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fair Trade Now! Call on your candidates for the European Parliament elections to support a fair EU trade policy<\/h3>\n
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European trade and investment agreements are still not in line with the EU's climate and sustainable development goals. Trade policy and the European Green Deal are in stark contradiction. That has to change. People and the environment must face short-term profit interests. For this, the next European Parliament must advocate a fundamental change in trade policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Call on your candidates for the European Parliament to support in the future an EU trade policy that meets the challenges of the 21st century and prioritises climate and environmental protection as well as human rights.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All they have to do is promise that they will be in the next legislature.<\/span> five key objectives (see Electoral Promises).<\/span><\/p>\n

Send your candidate an email and ask her to support a new EU trade policy. <\/b>so that over the next five years we have a better chance of stopping toxic trade agreements and advancing a globally just, climate-friendly and environmentally friendly trade policy that respects human and labour rights, promotes decent job creation and supports animal welfare.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

#VoteforTradeJustice<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

The electoral promise for a fair EU trade policy<\/h3>
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As a Member of the European Parliament, I will work for a fair EU trade policy, i.e. a trade that puts the well-being of people and the planet ahead of short-term profit interests while taking into account animal welfare. For these reasons, I promise:<\/p>\n

...to reject climate-damaging and toxic trade agreements, such as EU-Mercosur, which create even more precarious jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trade agreements are currently destroying good, decent jobs, putting wages under pressure, damaging the planet and penalising countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa in particular. We need a new approach to trade that focuses on the well-being of people and the planet, rather than serving the interests of international companies. To achieve this, workers' rights and related standards must be a priority.<\/p>\n

...support a trade that promotes environmentally friendly, regionally produced food with high animal welfare standards, shortens supply chains and increases food sovereignty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Family farms, communities and small businesses must be at the heart of regional trade in agricultural products, rather than large corporations and agribusiness profiting from environmentally destructive and exploitative rules and hiding their profits in tax havens.<\/p>\n

...support new rules to stop the export of products that are banned in the EU.<\/strong><\/p>\n

European companies should not make a profit by exporting toxic pesticides and other products whose distribution is prohibited in the EU.<\/p>\n

Abolish corporate rights in trade and investment agreements.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Companies in the fossil fuel industry and others use exclusive corporate lawsuits (officially known as investor-state arbitration (ISDS or ICS)) to pursue lawsuits against states outside the national legal system and sue them for billions of euros if, for example, government measures to protect the climate harm their profit interests.<\/p>\n

...promote transparency and democracy in the negotiation of trade agreements.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is necessary to ensure that civil society organisations and trade unions from the countries negotiating a trade agreement are actively involved in the negotiation process and are regularly and comprehensively informed. Splitting trade agreements to avoid scrutiny of national and regional parliaments and to exclude critical voices from EU Member States is unacceptable.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

Are you a:e candidate:in for election? Then click here to make the election promise<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Send your candidate an email<\/h3>