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Rejection of Ceta by the Senate: “It’s a great victory for the alter-globalization movement”, rejoices LFI MP Aurélie Trouvé
Rejection of Ceta by the Senate: “It’s a great victory for the alter-globalization movement”, rejoices LFI MP Aurélie Trouvé
(franceinfo)
Guests of 19/20 info, Thursday March 21, Aurélie Trouvé, La France insoumise (LFI) deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, and Christopher Weissberg, Renaissance deputy for French people established outside France, react to the Senate’s rejection of the Ceta treaty .
The Senate largely rejected the Ceta free trade treaty between the European Union and Canada on Thursday March 21. “This is a great victory for the anti-globalization movement”rejoices in the 19/20 info Aurélie Trouvé, La France insoumise (LFI) deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, who recalls that she was previously president of Attac. “I am very happy, because we have been fighting against this free trade agreement for ten years, trying to show all the harms of this agreement”she continues, also indicating that “the entire agricultural world is against”.
An agreement that has “no risk for us”
“The Ceta agreement is a good agreement”, defends for his part in the 19/20 info Christopher Weissberg, Renaissance deputy for French people established outside France, whose constituency covers Canada. He argues that this agreement includes “500 million euros for French farmers who export”that he does not have “no risk for us” and that he “imposes standards on Canadians on our values, on our products”.
