The parliamentary opposition in parliament against the already negotiated FTAs with the EU Canada (CETA) is growing. The Greens could process even stop – and drums already loudly against the pact
In advance of cooperative measures on the free trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA) in the Bundestag. stirs parliamentary resistance. But even in the Bundesrat a vote for the countries Pact is far from clear. The Greens could process even stop: you govern in ten with 16 federal states and quasi have thus veto power in the Bundesrat
“It is a bad deal”
according to the heads of the party drums already loudly against CETA: “It is a bad deal,” Juergen Trittin told the “Rheinische post”. “There should be neither final provisional application.” Schleswig-Holstein’s Environment Minister Robert Habeck said at CETA and the envisaged agreement, TTIP between the EU and the United States there is a risk that won rights of citizens in the global trade bargaining chip would. . The weakening confidence in the World Trade
Left Party leader Sahra Wagenknecht sees the chance grown that trade agreements to stop yet: “There is now a chance that the agreement and with it associated erosion of consumer protection, the grinding of the workers’ rights and the final destruction of democracy for the benefit of large corporations is completely prevented “. They described the EU Commission decision to decide in the parliaments of the EU member states about CETA as “slap in the face” for President Jean-Claude Juncker. The EU authority decided to depart from its previous line and classify the agreement as a so-called mixed agreement.
approval of parliaments “political necessity”
While not need the agreement of the Commission’s view the decision by the national parliaments actually how EU trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström in Strasbourg stated. However, this is a legal review. Politically, the situation is such that “we understand the need to propose it as a ‘mixed’ agreement,” Malmström said. It falls outside the EU and Member States competence alike. Therefore, there must in addition to the approval of the EU Council and the European Parliament – so at EU level – to be ratified even in the Member States
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CETA is first provisionally come into force
Malmström pointed also out that the European Court will be clarified “in the near future” the question of competence for trade agreements such as CETA. The Agreement should already provisionally enter into force once it has been approved by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament, so Malmström on.
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had last week stated that CETA is a pure EU agreement and therefore only has to vote on the EU Parliament. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that it would be still vote the Bundestag. Federal Minister of Economics and SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel called the previous attitude of the European Commission then “incredibly foolish.” CETA encountered in parts of the SPD also criticized the EU as the planned free trade agreement with the US (TTIP).
With the European Commission’s decision increases the risk that the already ausverhandelte CETA agreement is rejected by one of the parliaments. If it fails, also the still more controversial TTIP Treaty might fold run against the Green, Left and consumer advocates storm. CETA shall be ratified at an EU-Canada summit in October. Whether this timetable can be adhered to, is open
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