EXTERNAL ACTION / Vietnam

Doubts persist in European Parliament on ratification of trade agreements with Hanoi

Brussels, 04/10/2019 (Agence Europe)

The first exchange in the new parliamentary Committee on International Trade (INTA) on 2 October on trade agreements with Vietnam - a free trade agreement (FTA) and an investment protection agreement (IPA) - revived the debate between supporters of two strategies: the carrot and the stick.

MEPs will be called upon to ratify these agreements, signed last June, in the coming months (see EUROPE B12329A25).

However, many MEPs, both on the left and in the centre of the European Parliament,...