Email Douglas Alexander
Many poor countries from Africa, the Carribbean and Pacific (ACP) have recently signed up to interim versions of Europe's unfair trade deals because of huge pressure from the European Commission. We are calling for the deals to be changed dramatically. Find out what you can do about it.
Although the UK government expressed concerns about the deals, it was too little, too late.
The interim deals currently include trade only. Now the European Commission want to include controversial issues, like services (which poor countries have previously rejected at the World Trade Organisation) in the full versions of the deals.
We are calling for the deals to be changed dramatically to stop them wreaking havoc in poor countries. For countries, such as those in the Caribbean, who have already signed the deals, a review is urgently needed. The countries who haven't signed up to the deals yet are still under pressure to do so.
The interim deals currently include trade only. Now the European Commission want to include controversial issues, like services (which poor countries have previously rejected at the World Trade Organisation) in the full versions of the deals.
We are calling for the deals to be changed dramatically to stop them wreaking havoc in poor countries. For countries, such as those in the Caribbean, who have already signed the deals, a review is urgently needed. The countries who haven't signed up to the deals yet are still under pressure to do so.
What you can do
Email Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, to make sure that the UK government uses its influence within the European Union to back poor countries' calls for the deals to be renegotiated and to stop the inclusion of controversial issues such as services in these deals.
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