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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10464

1 October 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/trade
De Gucht rebuked over trade unionist persecution in Colombia

Brussels, 30/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - With the European Parliament voting, next year, on the bilateral free-trade agreement with Colombia which was concluded in March 2010, human rights organisations, backed up in Parliament by the S&D, Greens/EFA and GUE/NGL Groups, continue to condemn the murders of trade unionists in Colombia, the country in which 70% of all murders throughout the world of trade unionists occur. Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, however, highlights the efforts of the...

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