Activities of Thierry CORNILLET related to 2018/2084(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the WTO: the way forward
Amendments (5)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that trade liberalisation is not positive, per se, in terms of reducing pov, if propertly and inequalities, and that it can everegulated, can have negapositive effects on sustainable development if it is not propby reducing poverlty regulatedand inequalities; 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 24 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Calls for a world trade agenda based on the principle of 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;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. InsistStresses how important it is that the WTO should clearly recognise the role that world trade can play in contributing to the achievement of the SDGs and the fight against climate change, using; stresses that the Paris Agreement commitments arepresents a minimum benchmark;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
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 WTO; calls, therefore, for the EU and its Member StatCalls for the EU and its Member States to make additional efforts to once again place the WTO at the centre of global trade governance; stresses also the important role that bilateral or plurilateral trade agreements can play; considers that these to make additional efforts to once again place the WTO at the centre of global trade governancerade agreements can be complementary to the crucial work of the WTO;
Amendment 64 #
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; calls on WTO mUrges the Union to insist that WTO Members to ensure the democratic legitimacy and transparency by strengthening the parliamentary dimension of the WTOof their organisation; stresses, in this connection, the need to ensure thatreform the WTO and to give parliamentarians have better access to trade negotiations and areto involved them more in the fwormulation and implementation of WTO decisk of the WTO, in order to comply with citizens’ expectations.