📢 European Parliament's Fair Trade Working Group releases 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 #𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐔 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬🌿 The signatories stand together in refusing to accept a trade policy that has a massive negative social and environmental impact, both in and outside of Europe, and that disproportionately affects small producers from partner and third countries. The #EU cannot continue to: 🔹promote trade conditions that reinforce unsustainable practices and destroy our common goods, 🔹pressure small producers to endlessly reduce their production costs, 🔹impose unconcerted EU priorities in a one-way relationship that fosters frustration and EU distrust at our partners’ level. 👉 Instead, trade has to be equally beneficial to all, especially the small producers, which can be achieved by promoting #FairTrade practices and Fair Trade enterprises. The signatories welcome the idea of expanding the #EuropeanGreenDeal into a #GlobalGreenDeal as it highlights Europe's obligation to mitigate the effects its policies impose on third and partner countries and seeks to terminate exploitative relationships with the Global South 🌍 We're thanking Bernd Lange, Margarida Marques, Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero, Helmut Scholz, Udo Bullmann, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Samira Rafaela, Anna Cavazzini and Saskia Bricmont for their support and looking forward to working together in the next legislature. 🔗 Read the full statement here: https://lnkd.in/dS37sfRz Fairtrade International SOLIDAR & SOLIDAR Foundation World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) - Europe #GGD