Call on your candidates for the EU Parliament elections to support a fair EU trade policy
European trade and investment agreements are still not in line with the EU's climate protection and sustainable development goals. Trade policy and the European Green Deal are in stark contradiction to each other. This must change. People and the environment must be put before short-term profit interests. The next EU Parliament must stand up for a fundamental change in trade policy. #VoteforTradeJustice

Email your candidates and urge them to campaign for a new EU trade policy so that in the next five years we have a better chance of stopping harmful trade agreements and advancing a globally fair, climate and environmentally friendly trade policy that protects human and labour rights, promotes the creation of decent jobs and supports animal welfare.

Call on your candidates for election to the EU Parliament to stand up for an EU trade policy that meets the challenges of the 21st century and prioritises climate and environmental protection as well as human rights and to make the following election pledge for the coming legislative term:

The pledge for a fair EU trade policy
As a Member of the EU Parliament, I will advocate for a fair EU trade policy, i.e. trade that prioritises the well-being of people and the planet over short-term profit interests while taking animal welfare into account. For these reasons, I pledge

...to reject climate-damaging and harmful trade agreements, such as EU-Mercosur, which create even more precarious working conditions.
Trade agreements are currently destroying decent jobs, putting pressure on wages, harming the planet and penalising countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa in particular. We need a new approach to trade that puts the well-being of people and the planet at the centre, rather than serving the interests of global corporations. To achieve this, workers' rights and related standards must be a priority.

...support trade that promotes environmentally friendly, regionally produced food with high animal welfare standards, shortens supply chains and increases food sovereignty.
Family-run farms, communities and small businesses must be at the centre of regional trade in agricultural products, instead of large corporations and agribusiness that benefit from environmentally destructive and exploitative rules and hide their profits in tax havens.

...support new regulations to stop the export of products that are banned in the EU.
 European companies should not make profits from exporting toxic pesticides and other products that are banned in the EU.

...abolish corporate rights of action in trade and investment agreements.
Fossil fuel companies and others use exclusive corporate litigation rights (officially known as Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS or ICS)) to seek legal action against states outside the national legal system and sue them for billions of euros if, for example, government measures on climate protection harm their profit interests.

...promote transparency and democracy in the negotiation of trade agreements.
 It must be ensured that civil society organisations and trade unions from the countries between which a trade agreement is being negotiated are actively involved in the negotiation process and are regularly and fully informed. Splitting trade agreements in order to circumvent the control of national and regional parliaments and exclude critical voices from EU member states is unacceptable.