Question 2010 — foreign trade

Summary

Ms. Aurélie Trouvé questions the Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, responsible for foreign trade, attractiveness and French people abroad, on the French position with regard to the strategy of relaunching trade negotiations by the European Union. Since 2020 and the covid-19 pandemic, public speeches have followed one another, both in Paris and in Brussels, in favor of relocation of economic activities or European strategic autonomy in terms of industry, energy, agriculture and the production of goods and services. However, for several months, the European Commission, with the tacit or public consent of Member States, has multiplied initiatives to negotiate, finalize, sign and ratify new trade and investment liberalization agreements: New Zealand, Australia, India, Mexico, Chile, etc. : the President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen explicitly stated during her State of the Union speech that she wanted to quickly “ratify the trade agreements with Chile, Mexico and New Zealand” and “continue negotiations with Australia and India”. At the same time, the press revealed in August 2022 that the Commission was trying to resuscitate by all means means the EU-Mercosur agreement. If Emmanuel Macron had asked that no announcement of this type be made public during the French presidency of the European Union, an agreement with New Zealand has since been announced, without France finding anything wrong with it, any more than with the declarations of Ursula Von der Leyen. What is the French strategy regarding the possible conclusion of the EU-Mercosur agreement? The implications of this agreement for the Brazilian forest and indigenous populations as well as for European peasant agriculture have been widely analyzed as disastrous by NGOs and the most serious experts. The Government itself had commissioned a group of experts which produced a very mixed report on the impacts of the possible treaty. While it is now widely accepted that it is necessary to immediately and massively reduce greenhouse gas emissions from France, is it really reasonable to want to increase imports and exports with countries located tens of thousands of kilometers from France and the European Union? In a period of sobriety imposed on all French people, on local authorities, on businesses themselves, while the previous government, from the same majority, hammered out the slogan of “relocation ", she asks him how France's representatives in Brussels stand in the face of the European Commission's desire to relaunch an all-out offensive commercial agenda.

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