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"A veritable ‘manual’ for Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)…
The text is full of uncritical references to the reduction, elimination and liberalisation of non-tariff barriers, to concerns about the possible distortion of competition caused by public subsidies, to the importance of increasing the liberalisation of services and investment and competitive tendering, and it also expresses more or less explicit support for the Treaty of Lisbon.
The resolution is so neoliberal that it prompted the Social Democrats to try and whitewash their connivance with its contents, through the presentation of a series of amendments aiming to tone it down – so-called capitalism with a human face.
Once again, we can see that these free trade treaties are trying to push through the window what they were unable to push through the door. By establishing this type of agreement with the regions and countries of the world, the EU is gradually trying to promote the liberalisation of international trade while continuing negotiations within the WTO.
We firmly reject the FTAs (no matter how mystifying they are made to seem). We believe that people need to organise, unite and fight for an end to neoliberal policies, which have had such harmful consequences for workers and peoples."@en1
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