Text tabled : B7-0291/2011

  Marie-Christine Vergiat (GUE/NGL), in writing. – (FR) I voted against the European Parliament resolution on the negotiations for the free trade agreement between the EU and India. This report is entirely consistent with policies of increased liberalisation, especially in the public service sector, and with standards which have deleterious effects not only on the supply of medicinal products, but also on the development of research.

This is another instance of the ultra-liberalism that the EU is seeking to impose on all its partners. This is the broadest agreement ever concluded by the EU in this area, and it seeks more to protect the interests of big multinational corporations than to engage in a balanced partnership between all parties and to contribute to India’s economic and social development.

This agreement is certainly not a ‘win-win’ initiative as this resolution would have us believe.