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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11067

26 April 2014
Contents Publication in full By article 23 / 25
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) vietnam
Free trade - FIDH calls for human rights clause

Brussels, 25/04/2014 (Agence Europe) - Echoing calls by the European Parliament in a resolution adopted on 17 April, the Worldwide Human Rights Movement (known by its French acronym, FIDH) and the Vietnamese Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) want a safeguard clause on human rights to be included in the forthcoming free-trade agreement between the EU and Vietnam, which could be concluded by the end of the year.

The request made by the ecologists (Greens/EFA) and extreme left-wing (GUE/NGL) to...