The freetrade-agreement between the EU and Vietnam will be soon concluded. In the beginning of next year, the European Parliament will have to approve of it. However, Vietnam still violates human rights and an agreement would just support the regime in its wrong approach. In addition, the agreement would include…

Today is the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 1,129 people were killed. It was the deadliest garment-factory accident in human history. On occasion of this day, Ska Keller said: “One year on, and very little has changed. Many companies who sourced clothing from Rana Plaza…

The Lisbon Treaty has provided the European Parliament (EP) with significant amounts of power in trade policy. Before Lisbon, trade deals were mainly negotiated by the Commission. Now, the Parliament has to give its consent to international trade agreements. It is time for an assessment. One example from my life…

Bananas are only one of countless examples for the wrongfullness incorporated in our trading system. This video is made to illustrate how much – or better – how little the planters are making off of one convetionally traded banana and who makes the profit instead if them. It is a…

Watch the full video or read what Ska said:  – Mr President, the US has always paid lip service to multilateralism but in fact it has been undermining these goals since 2007: embarking on complementary approaches such as bilateral, regional or plurilateral agreements. We need a real commitment to multilateralism and,…

1 minute, catch the eye The problem is: the EU is always paying lip-service in favour of a strong multilateral rules-based approach to trade. But the EU is de facto since 2007 undermining this goal by embarking on complementary approaches such as bilateral, regional and plurilateral agreements. This has deviated…

Based on the Commission’s papers on the EU’s negotiating position. Some of them are publicly available, to be found under: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=943   Horizontal regulatory cooperation What the EU wants The EU aims at completely abolishing, or at least reducing, “unnecessary” safeguards that hinder trade and investment. A kind of transatlantic…

Ska Keller together with Barbara Lochbihler, Hélène Flautre and Jean Lambert worked on a position paper of the Green Group in European Parliament. Climate change and environmental degradation have had a significant impact on population movements worldwide – and this is still to increase. As CO2 emissions continue to rise, is the…

Ska Keller (Greens/EFA) Charles Goerens (ALDE) Gay Mitchell (EPP) Mikael Gustafsson (GUE/NGL) Thijs Berman (S&D)   Ana Miranda (Greens/EFA) Barbara Lochbihler (Greens/EFA) Bart Staes (Greens/EFA) Catherine Grèze (Greens/EFA) Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Greens/EFA) Eva Joly (Greens/EFA) Eva Lichtenberger (Greens/EFA) Franziska Brantner (Greens/EFA) Gerald Häfner (Greens/EFA) Heide Rühle (Greens/EFA) Hélène Flautre (Greens/EFA) Helga…