A wind of protest blows on the agreement concluded Sunday between Washington and Brussels. MP Emmanuel Maurel (GDR group – Communists and Ultramarine) filed a resolution proposal on Wednesday asking the French government to oppose it. Published Thursday on the site of the National Assembly, the text has already collected around twenty signatures, going “from the left to the modem”, specifies the elected official, who continues to solicit parliamentarians to widen this front.
The resolution explicitly invites the executive to “signify to the European Commission its opposition to the project of economic and commercial agreement between the European Union and the United States” and to “oppose this project” during the next meetings of the European Council.
France in danger according to the text
In his presentation of reasons, Emmanuel Maurel warns: the French economy “risks being violently impacted” by this agreement, especially since the European Commission “is committed to additional import contingents of American agricultural products”. The text also criticizes the promise of increased purchases of American armaments, judged as “a direct attack on our economic and strategic interests” and contrary to European treaties, “the Commission having no right or mandate to negotiate and even less conclude armaments contracts with foreigners”.
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Faced with these commitments deemed illegitimate and dangerous, Emmanuel Maurel pleads so that the French Parliament is expressed “in terms without the slightest ambiguity” against this Trump-Von der Leyen agreement. Finally, he calls on the government to demand that the project be subject to “unanimous votes from member states to the Council, then to a vote in the European Parliament and to a ratification by all national parliaments”.
