Take back the power: make trade work for people and planet
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Take back the power: make trade work for people and planet
On Thursday 22 May, people across Europe will be asked to vote for candidates to represent them at the European Parliament.
All 28 member states will be going to the polls to elect their Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
This is a key time to demonstrate our opposition to trade deals which are giving more and more power to big business at the expense of people and the environment.
With
trade deals in the pipeline with some of the world’s poorest countries
and with the US, and companies using investment rules to challenge
government policy making, we must act now and call on MEPs to take back the power.
Email your MEP candidates now
Please
email your European election candidates and ask them to show their
commitment to trade justice by signing our Take Back the Power pledge.
This is the pledge we're calling on MEP candidates to sign up to:
If elected as an MEP in May 2014, I will stand up for trade and
investment rules that serve people and the environment, and promote
development objectives. I pledge to take action to bring about a
full-scale re-think of the EU’s trade and investment policy.
In order to help bring about a re-think, I will:
Write to the Trade Commissioner and President of the European Commission to urge them to commit to:
1) Remove Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) from future investment treaties and trade deals.
2)
Ensure that the international framework of social, labour, human and
women’s rights and standards takes precedence over corporate interests
in future trade and investment deals.
3) Ensure genuine participation and engagement of civil society organisations in future trade and investment deals.
4)
Consider and engage with alternatives to the EU’s current approach to
trade and investment, such as those set out in the Alternative Trade
Mandate.
Seek to become actively involved in discussion and initiatives of
the political grouping to which my party/I belong to bring the above
issues before the European Parliament.
