The EU Committee on Employment and Social Affairs has drafted a no holds barred opinion on CETA, to the EU Committee on International Trade. It makes it clear that CETA will:
- barely increase jobs, and will more likely increase unemployment.
- widen the income gap
- negatively inpact on the EU’s 20.9 million SME’s (small-medium employers)
- privilege investors over labour rights, and will
- divert trade away from developing countries, particularly Africa
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