Visiting Sri Lanka on 10-12 April to assess the country’s progress in its respect of human rights, with a view to granting trade preferences under the EU’s generalised scheme of preferences (GSP+), two MEPs from the European Parliament’s GUE/NGL Group – Lola Sánchez Caldentey from Spain and Anne-Marie Mineur from the Netherlands – urged the Sri Lankan authorities to implement their commitments. "The European Union should not grant a special trade status to Sri Lanka if the money...