Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-09-14-Speech-3-243-796"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2016-09-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the SADC EPA States (A8-0242/2016 - Alexander Graf Lambsdorff)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20160914.23.3-243-796"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2016-09-14-Speech-3-243-8122
lpv:speaker	lp:Matt Carthy2
lpv:spoken text	"I voted against this report. The EU signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in June 2016 with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) group, which includes Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland. EPAs, created in 2000, are trade agreements that were meant to safeguard African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries’ preferential access to EU markets. EPAs are changing this preferential access from non-reciprocal to reciprocal access, meaning that ACP countries are required to open their markets to EU imports and, furthermore, require liberalisation in other areas such as investment and services. This will have serious negative consequences for local populations in the SADC and the strong opposition from these states and civil society mean negotiations have lasted more than a decade."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee of Inquiry to investigate alleged contraventions and maladministration in the application of Union law in relation to money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (2016-06-24--2017-12-13)3 substitute; ECON (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3 member; AGRI (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Matt Carthy (GUE/NGL ),"1 "in writing. ‒"1

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