Activities of Paul RÜBIG related to 2018/2084(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
WTO: the way forward (debate) DE
WTO: the way forward (debate) DE
Reports (1)
REPORT on WTO: the way forward PDF (347 KB) DOC (75 KB)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Recallognises that trade liberalisation is not positive, per se, in terms of reducing poverty and inequalities, and that it can even have negative effects on sustainable development if it is not properly regulateda dramatic increase in developing country participation in trade has coincided with an equally sharp decline in extreme poverty worldwide; welcomes that fact that developing countries now constitute about half of world trade, up from 33 percent in 2000, and that the number of people living in extreme poverty has been cut in half since 1990, to just under one million people; underlines, in this context, the potential of the WTO as an efficient rules-based multilateral negotiating forum which provides a platform for open discussion on global trade-related issues; insists that the EU should continue to promote the democratisation of the WTO;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Calls for a trade agenda based on fair trade for the benefit of all, which puts development and social, environmental and human rights at the centre of the process and has a special focus on the needs of low-income developing countries and least-developed countries; takes the view that, since the Doha Round was launched in 2001, the world has changed dramatically in economic, political and technological terms, and that the digital transformation offers unique opportunities to developing countries to escape the poverty trap; thus encourages to combine the challenges of the Doha Development Agenda with new challenges, such as e-commerce, digital trade, investment transparency, subsidies and overcapacity, global value chains, public procurement, domestic regulation for services, micro, small and medium- sized enterprises; demands increased support for Aid for Trade projects in the framework of development aid in order to turn digital opportunities into trade realities for developing countries;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Insists that the WTO should clearly recognise the role that trade can play in contributing to the achievement of the SDGs and the fight against climate change,with a particular focus on climate governance using the Paris Climate Agreement commitments as a minimum benchmarkas a benchmark for further commitments; emphasises the importance of the provision of sufficient good-quality food, clean water and the building of additional wastewater disposal facilities in order to deliver on SDG 2 and 6; furthermore, draws the attention to the scale and implications of energy poverty in developing countries and demands additional action to reduce energy poverty in line with SDG 7, in particular in remote rural areas in off-grid energy regions;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
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4. Is concerned, in the above context, that bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements could lead to the fragmentation of international trade policy and thus undermine the role of the WTOvinced that multilateral trade solutions should be preferred to bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements; calls, therefore, for the EU and its Member States to make additional efforts to once again place the WTO at the centre of global trade governance;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Expresses its utmost concern that the US is blockingseveral vacant posts on the aAppointment of several vacant posts on the Appellate Body of the WTOellate Body of the WTO remain vacant and that this circumstance hinders the proper functioning of the dispute settlement mechanism; thus invites the European Commission to come forward with concrete proposals to resolve this unfortunate deadlock;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the EU to continue to make the case for increasing the importance of the parliamentary dimension of the WTO, in particular by an increased financial and personal support to the responsible secretariat; calls on WTO members to ensure democratic legitimacy and transparency by strengthening the parliamentary dimension of the WTO; stresses, in this connection, the need to ensure that parliamentarians have better access to trade negotiations and are involved in the formulation and implementation of WTO decisions.