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[Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: CETA back from the dead - but it's not over yet


From: John Rooke
Subject: [Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: CETA back from the dead - but it's not over yet
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 20:59:09 +0000
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Subject: CETA back from the dead - but it's not over yet
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 12:42:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Guy Taylor, Global Justice Now <address@hidden>
Reply-To: Guy Taylor, Global Justice Now <address@hidden>
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Dear John,

After a long week of opposition and delays, on Sunday the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and European leaders signed CETA*. The media have presented the signing as the end of the journey for CETA, saying that it’s time for everyone to accept this trade deal as finalised.

But despite the triumphant rhetoric of the signing ceremony, the deal is definitely not out of the woods yet. We still have a chance to put CETA back in the grave. The ratification process continues and its next stop is the European parliament, scheduled for a vote in December or January.

You and thousands of other people have asked your MEPs to reject CETA. Please share the action to make sure many more join the campaign against CETA.

 
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The next steps for CETA

If the EU parliament votes to ratify CETA, the deal will then be 'provisionally implemented' as early as 2017. This means that the parts of the deal that are deemed to affect European law and not national law will be implemented. But to come fully into force, CETA must still clear some 38 national and regional parliaments in the EU in the coming years.

The parliament of Wallonia, the French-speaking Belgian region which has already opposed CETA and postponed the signing, has been promised that they will be able to stop the ratification of CETA when they get a formal vote on it. Unless there are substantial changes, they – and hopefully other parliaments – will use that veto.

What’s more, the whole ‘corporate court’ concept will now go to the highest European court to rule on its legality – something which risks invalidating the EU’s entire trade agenda.

We still have a chance to stop CETA when the EU parliament votes on it.

Please share our campaign with as many people as possible to keep up the pressure.

 
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Thank you for your continued support.

Guy Taylor
Campaigner at Global Justice Now

*Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

 
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