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"Mr President, I would like to thank the rapporteur and the other shadows. These TiSA negotiations are controversial. Services are crucial to our economies and their quality has a direct impact on jobs, fairness at work and social cohesion. In this House we have the power to veto any trade deal, and if we use this power wisely in the negotiations we can deliver a more democratic EU trade policy that works for people and not just for profit.
To do that, we have to set out clear mandates for the negotiators on what we are willing to accept and what we will not. We found such an agreement in the Committee on International Trade in the middle of January. We got support from six of eight political groups, and I am now calling on colleagues from all sides of this Parliament to confirm this strong mandate in plenary and, in so doing, to make it impossible for the Commission and the Member States to disregard our views and the public’s concerns.
This is not a vote on whether we are for or against a TiSA deal; it is about setting out red lines. We should be clear: today’s global rules reflect the analogue era, whilst we are in a digital world, and they need to be updated. We need new safeguards and protections. We want a full, unambiguous exclusion for all public services. We need rules to guarantee public authorities’ right to regulate and, while we are good at exporting services in Europe, which is creating and maintaining millions of jobs in the EU, we should do what we can to create new opportunities for our economy. At the same time, we should ensure service sector workers know that we are on their side and that we will not accept an agreement which intensifies social dumping. We need to re-regulate globalisation, and TiSA could help us achieve that. But the Commission needs to get it right. EU negotiators must change the EU’s priorities in the TiSA negotiations. They need to see that we are serious, and that is why we need strong support for this resolution when it is voted upon in plenary."@en1
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