A proposal for resolution filed in the Assembly against the EU-USA Trade Agreement

Will we soon have a debate in the Assembly on the US-Europe trade agreement? In any case, this is the wish of around twenty deputies from the PCF, the PS and the Modem which sign A resolution proposal Put online Thursday July 31 on the assembly website to ask the French government to oppose this very controversial agreement. For the signatories of the text, the National Assembly must imperatively seize the subject.

“This is an existential question, does Europe clearly become the vassal of the United States, under the orders of Mr. Trump?”Alerts the communist related deputy Emmanuel Maurel, at the origin of this proposal for resolution and which denounces a serious situation. In his eyes, it is a very unbalanced trade agreement: “We cannot accept that our products are taxed at more than 15% when they go to the United States and that American products are not at all “he is indignant.

All political parties are hostile to the agreement, then for Emmanuel Maurel, the national representation must make his voice heard. “The National Assembly will have expressed to say that it is not possible that France accepts such an agreement” And it will be “A point of support for France to the European Council to say ‘we cannot accept'”believes the deputy.

In this proposal for resolution, the Assembly invites the government to “Note to the European Commission its opposition to the project of economic and commercial agreement between the European Union and the United States“, and “Oppose this project” During the next meetings of the European Council. The aim of the maneuver is therefore to give legitimacy to France to oppose this agreement on a European scale.

This uncompromising debate and symbolic vote could take place at the start of the school year in the hemicycle, subject to a green light from the Conference of Presidents of the Assembly, which represent the various political groups.