14:27 – EU-Japan agreement: NGOs denounce "a climaticide agreement" and a decline in Paris

The free trade agreement signed in Tokyo on Tuesday by the European Union and Japan is the "biggest climaticide trade agreement ever signed", say the Foundation for Nature and Man (FNH, former Foundation Hulot) and the Veblen Institute

"A few months after the CETA (signed with Canada) came into force, the EU signed a new climaticide agreement", "in the general indifference", s' insurgent the two NGOs in a statement.

The two French organizations blame the French government in particular, accused of "denying its promises + trade agreements compatible with the Paris + Agreement" adopted at the end of 2015 against global warming

Several "structuring points" of this agreement called Jefta (Japan-EU free trade agreement) go against the commitments taken against the warming, they underline.

In particular "three key engagements were abandoned" by Paris : "as in the CETA, the two chapters that are not binding are those dealing with sustainable development "; the Paris Agreement in particular was inscribed in these chapters and not in the essential clauses.

Finally, the national parliaments are deprived of national ratification, while the French government "undertook to make the negotiations more transparent. trade and to involve national parliamentarians upstream, "say the two NGOs," denouncing the flight ahead of a European trade policy that aggravates the environmental crisis. "

In Tokyo, the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk have emphasized their role as a flag-bearer of free trade, when US President Donald Trump is threatening the world with the threat of a trade war

The text must be submitted by the end of the year to the European Parliament for entry into force in 2019, if the Japanese Parliament votes he too quickly.