QCEA highlights CETA risk
Concerns raised over the trade agreement between the EU and Canada
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has warned that a trade deal between the European Union and Canada, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), may slip ‘under the radar’.
QCEA describes CETA as ‘very similar’ to the better-known Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement between the European Union and the United States.
CETA negotiations concluded in 2014, and the legal revision of the text was completed earlier this year, leaving the way clear for final ratification.
QCEA is encouraging Friends across Europe to put pressure on their governments ‘by writing to your representative and trade minister to call for CETA to be voted on in your national parliament, and to reject “provisional implementation” – meaning that the agreement could not be applied until this process has concluded in all twenty-eight member states’.
‘Calling for an economic and sustainable impact assessment of CETA would also serve to show the concerns around the deal, and delay its implementation,’ said QCEA project officer (sustainability), George Thurley.
