The Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA), Bernd Lange (S&D, German), initiated a debate on trade and sustainable development at the plenary session in Strasbourg on Wednesday 5 October. He asked the Commission how to apply sanctions to partner countries that do not respect the obligations of the sustainable development chapters in their trade agreement with the EU.
EU Commissioner Margarítis Schinás, who represented the Commission on Wednesday...