{"id":1152,"date":"2020-11-17T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2020-12-16T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T15:48:18","slug":"international-trade-between-climate-change-and-pandemic-which-solutions-facing-free-trade-which-safeguards-in-a-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/2020\/11\/17\/international-trade-between-climate-change-and-pandemic-which-solutions-facing-free-trade-which-safeguards-in-a-digital-world\/","title":{"rendered":"International trade between climate change and pandemic: which solutions facing free trade? Which safeguards in a digital world?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In these difficult times of pandemic, growing inequality and global warming, it is up to us to take the initiatives that will make tomorrow&rsquo;s world better and more just.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We call for a political shift to take back democratic control over trade rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must use trade as a matrix :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>To improve our use of resources<\/li><li>To share wealth<\/li><li>To upgrade working conditions<\/li><li>To change our consumption habits and have the lowest impact on climate<\/li><li>To promote food that protects our health and that is produced sustainably<\/li><li>To promote links with countries that share our commitment<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe must promote with all partners fair trade instead of free trade:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>We want a new trade policy when a global pandemic demonstrates the major health and social risks we are facing around the world<\/li><li>We want a new trade policy when climate change is the direct consequence of our patterns of consumption, production and wastage<\/li><li>We want a new trade policy when our health standards are permanently flouted by increasingly toxic environmental dumping<\/li><li>We want a new trade policy when public resources are weakened by unpunished fiscal dumping<\/li><li>We want a new trade policy when digital multinationals are taking huge profits, exploiting workers and failing to pay their taxes as a provocation to citizens.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It is time to reshape our global trade approach in a world facing rising inequalities, pandemics and global competition among workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Albert Klein<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these difficult times of pandemic, growing inequality and global warming, it is up to us to take the initiatives that will make tomorrow&rsquo;s world better<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanforum.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}