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"This agreement is a good example of the power of the multinationals and the role of the World Trade Organisation as a forum that defends their interests. It also shows us, once again, how the European Union also sees itself as an instrument in the service of the interests of transnational monopolies. With this agreement, the US multinationals, which today already control more than 80% of the world’s banana trade – interests that the Commission agrees it was trying to ‘tranquillise’ with this agreement – will see their market share get even bigger.
It is these multinationals that are accused and denounced for violating human rights, seizing land from indigenous peoples and promoting working conditions close to slavery, all to promote environmentally unsustainable, intensive production models. In return, the Agreement – as the rapporteur herself admits – will threaten the survival of thousands of small and medium-sized producers, both in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and in European countries.
Small and medium-sized producers, social and labour laws and the preservation of the environment continue to be sacrificed at the altar of free trade, transformed into mere hot air in the official debate and trampled on every day in practice, as we see yet again."@en1
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