Tearfund has joined with the Trade Justice Movement to ask us to write to our MEP to call for fairer trade deals before it’s too late – the future of 750 million people could depend on it.
MEPs may have the opportunity to influence these deals over the next few weeks and months.
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are unfair trade deals the European Commission is trying to force on poor African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. These deals could hurt livelihoods, jobs and the environment in these countries.
MEPs hold the European Commission to account and so can demand that its President, Commissioner Barroso, re-opens negotiations with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. Everyone has several MEPs that represent your region. Click here to find out the key MEPs TearFund have identified as being of critical importance on this issue.
We can use their letter writing tool to create a ready made letter to send to our MEPs in Brussels, or copy the text below into an e-mail message and e-mail them at the addresses provided. Click here for the letter writing tool.
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