Aerial view of a deforested area of the Amazon rainforest in Amazonas state, Brazil, on September 15. MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP
STORY – Elected officials from all sides are asking France to block the controversial free trade agreement between the European Union and Latin American countries.
A press conference which brings together representatives of almost all the parliamentary groups of the National Assembly, in the presence of Christiane Lambert, president of the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA). The image is not trivial. This unprecedented transpartisan alliance rises up against the very controversial free trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), often presented as a “meat for cars” agreement which provides for the elimination customs duties on more than 90% of traded goods and services.
«I saw the damage at home from a China that had become the factory of the world, which led to the relocation of the factories; I don’t want a Brazil to become the farm of the world”, is alarmed François Ruffin, elected from the Somme of La France insoumise (LFI). “This kind of treaty would jeopardize our agriculture and livestock farming and more broadly European agriculture, which is already losing its competitiveness.“, outbids…
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