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"Mr President, I will speak – I hope that you do not mind, Ms Malmström – only about the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union.
I fear that this agreement will meet the same fate as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The least we can say is that these negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement lack transparency. These negotiations began in 2009 and we are in the 12th round of negotiations. However, we cannot say that we are very well informed about the content of these negotiations. The Commission’s own website is blocked at the ninth round. It includes no real information and the most relevant information we have comes from Canada. What is worse, Parliament’s point of view hardly seems to have been taken into account from one resolution to the next.
This agreement is the most ambitious agreement ever negotiated with Canada, indeed with any other state in the world. It is based on a so-called negative list approach for the liberalisation of services. Yet most public services do not seem to have been excluded from the negotiations. What will happen to services for health, education, electricity, telecommunications, drinking water and even culture, if only the economic and trade approach prevails on either side of the Atlantic? Only the interests of large public companies which want to win new market shares at the expense of the general interest, of the public interest of our communities, seem to have been taken into account. This vision of the world has, however, already caused quite enough damage for us to stop this headlong flight. Yet nothing is being done. The points of view of the experts responsible for assessing the impact of these agreements seem to be diverse to say the least. Some talk of creating 80 000 jobs in Canada, while others talk about cutting 30 to 150 000 jobs. A study of this kind does not seem to have been published for the European Union, and that is certainly a shame. The impact of this agreement could also have serious consequences for the local authorities and their public procurement, which, basically, seem to have been pushed aside.
Could we have an accurate assessment of this agreement and equally accurate impact studies on its consequences? ACTA should serve as a lesson for us; it does not and I regret that."@en1
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