<div dir="ltr"><div style id="stcpDiv"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-size:18px">Hola,<br><br></div><div class="" style="font-size:18px">aquí os enviamos una ciber-acción (envío masivo de cartas a miembros del Parlamento Europeo) <b>para exigir que paren inmediatamente las negociaciones comerciales de la UE con Canadá (CETA) y los EEUU (TTIP)</b>.<br>
<br></div><div class="" style="font-size:18px">Para firmar la carta podéis entrar directamente aquí: <a href="http://www.ttip-unfairhandelbar.de/start/petition/">http://www.ttip-unfairhandelbar.de/start/petition/</a><br></div>
<div class="" style="font-size:18px"><br></div><div class="" style="font-size:18px">Abrazos,<br>Ecologistas en Acción<br></div><div class="" style="font-size:18px"><br><font size="4"><b>Sign the petition to candidates running in the 2014 European elections: Stop the TTIP and CETA!</b></font></div>
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<p>TTIP unfairhandelbar | 6 March 2014</p>
<p><strong>Common Welfare over Economic Interests: Stop the TTIP and CETA!</strong></p><strong>
</strong><p><strong>A message for candidates running in the 2014 European Parliament elections</strong></p>
<p>At the moment, the European Union is negotiating with the United
States of America and Canada the terms of far-reaching trade and
investment agreements (TTIP and CETA).</p>
<p>1. As public citizens, we demand an end to negotiations behind closed
doors and the democratic restructuring of EU trade policies.</p>
<p>2. A weakening of existing workers’ rights, environmental- and
consumer protection standards, as well as financial market regulations
through the TTIP or CETA is absolutely unacceptable. We also reject
reductions in future political scopes of action.</p>
<p>3. Banks and corporations should not be granted additional rights of
action against States (Investor-State-Dispute-Settlement, ISDS), which
would enable them to thwart democratically taken decisions.</p>
<p>4. Hence, the negotiations of the TTIP and CETA must be stopped
immediately. We demand that the members of the EU parliament take a
public stance against these negotiations and that they reject the
agreements, if presented with the terms for ratification.</p>
<p><strong>Sign on here: <a href="http://www.ttip-unfairhandelbar.de/start/petition/" class="" rel="nofollow external" target="_blank">http://www.ttip-unfairhandelbar.de/start/petition/</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Explanatory Statement</strong></p>
<p>The negotiations of the TTIP and the CETA are currently being held
behind closed doors, under the influence of business lobbies. Neither
public citizens nor parliamentarians have access to important
negotiating papers.</p>
<p>The cutting of tariffs plays a rather marginal role in the
negotiations. The adjustment of standards bares much greater importance.
On the negotiating table are workers’ rights, environmental- and
consumer protection standards, as well as financial market regulations.
The possible consequences of these agreements range from the undermining
of social standards and financial market regulations to the approval
and import of genetically-modified food and the expansion of fracking to
extract natural gas.</p>
<p>The Investor-State-Dispute-Settlement (ISDS) would grant foreign
banks and corporations additional rights of action against States. These
rights would be a powerful weapon against democratically taken
decisions. Existing legal systems would be undermined; and taxpayers
would be forced to pay billions in damages to international investors.</p>
<p>For more information, go to: <a href="http://www.attac.de" class="" rel="nofollow external" target="_blank">www.attac.de</a>, <a href="http://www.ttip-unfairhandelbar.de" class="" rel="nofollow external" target="_blank">www.ttip-unfairhandelbar.de</a>, <a href="http://www.alternativetrademandate.org/" class="" rel="nofollow external" target="_blank">www.alternativetrademandate.org/</a></p>
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