Strasbourg, 20/05/2010 (Agence Europe) - On the day after the EU-Latin America and Caribbean Summit, in Madrid on 19 May, the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament has leapt to criticise the free trade agreements (FTAs) concluded between the EU and Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panamá), on the one hand, and Colombia and Peru, on the other. In a press release French MEP Catherine Grèze said, “EU member states should be ashamed of the huge gulf between rhetoric and reality. Despite the failure to respect Andean Community law, despite the announced breakdown of several economic sectors, despite the Colombian secret services scandal, despite the disappearance of dozens of native people, an EFA has been signed with Peru and Colombia. Not to mention the problems surrounding the agreement with Central America, the countries of which took offence at the excessive EU demands in the dairy sector last week. We cannot put up with an EU which continues to work in the old logic of free trade agreements the only aim of which is to get rid of European overproduction, without the slightest consideration for the economic consequences, food sovereignty and human rights in these regions”. (E.H./transl.rt)