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"I voted for the Howitt report on the EU’s human rights policy, which honours the European Parliament with its ambition and clarity. However, I do not support a specific point: the proposal to include a human rights chapter in all international trade treaties, which seems unsuitable and excessive to me. Defending and promoting human rights is not an intrinsic and specific goal of EU external trade policy. Trade policy must certainly be consistent with the other aspects of external and internal policy, starting with human rights, so we cannot conclude a trade agreement with a country characterised by systematic human rights violations, such as China or Belarus. Nevertheless, we cannot make international trade conditional on the EU’s high human rights standards. What we can and must demand is that trade treaties be positive on balance, rather than negative. I fully agree, however, with the proposal for strengthening the chapter on labour and environmental standards, which is incorporated in the EU’s external trade treaties. It is a case of defending the EU’s very economic and commercial interests, by combating social and environmental dumping in trade relations."@en1
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