Stop Europe's unfair trade deals
Sign the petition urging Gordon Brown to take urgent action to make Europe's trade deals with poor countries fair.
Trade Rules Suck
The campaign on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stated that the UK ‘s international trade policy must move to address world poverty. One of the current challenges for his Government is to address concerns with Europe’s unfair trade deals, called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), with 76 poor African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
The EU is keen to complete these deals by the end of 2007 and ACP countries are effectively being forced into a negotiating corner. However three regions in Africa have now requested more time to allow for fair deals to be negotiated.
The Trade Justice Movement, of which People & Planet is a member, is calling on the UK Government to use its full influence to stop unfair deals going ahead, to listen to the serious concerns of poor countries and work with those countries to develop new deals that will help deliver trade justice.
We need to get Gordon Brown’s attention now.
With only weeks to go, the EU is putting intense pressure on 76 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to sign free trade agreements that pose serious risks to jobs, livelihoods, economies and the environment.
Sign this petition on the Number Ten Downing Street website and ask Gordon Brown to make trade work for some of the world’s poorest people.
Find out more about Economic Partnership Agreements.