Customs duties: Emmanuel Maurel urges government to oppose EU-US agreement

Say no to the agreement. A motion for a resolution calling on the government to oppose the trade deal between the European Union and the United States was tabled in the National Assembly by Emmanuel Maurel, GDR MP for Val-d'Oise, this Thursday.

An agreement between US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, which provides for a 15% increase in customs duties on European exports.

The draft resolution, signed by around twenty left-wing MPs in the MoDem, calls on the government to "inform the European Commission of its opposition to the proposed economic and trade agreement between the European Union and the United States" and to "oppose this project" at the next meetings of the European Council.

For the GDR MP who initiated the text, the French economy "risks being violently impacted" by this draft agreement, "especially since the Commission has committed to additional import quotas for American agricultural products" but also for arms.

According to him, the European Commission has decided to "make Europe dependent on the United States for its energy supplies, through an intention to buy 750 billion euros of oil and liquefied natural gas from them."

"Under these conditions, it seems urgent that the French Parliament pronounce itself in unequivocal terms against the Trump-von der Leyen agreement ," we can read in the explanatory statement of the resolution published on the National Assembly website.

Finally, the parliamentarian invites the government to ask the European Commission to "submit the draft agreement to a unanimous vote of the Member States in the Council, then to a vote in the European Parliament and to ratification by all the Parliaments of the Member States" .