International Trade and Development

As an MEP, Caroline Lucas has worked for radical reform of the rules governing international trade, promoted fair trade and spoken out to expose the so-called ‘free trade’ agenda of global big business, banks and bureaucrats, which takes power away from ordinary people. She has worked with the global justice movement and puts localisation and fair trade at the heart of her proposals for an alternative to economic globalisation.

Image: Caroline with campaigners from Oxfam ahead of the WTO summit 2003

Press Releases

Green MEPs Challenge European Commission Over EU Procurement From Microsoft - 15.4.2008

South East Euro-MP To Champion Transition Towns On Visit To Cirencester And Stroud - 10.4.2008

Green Euro-MP Calls For ‘Progressive Opposition’ In Stormy Debate Over EU Treaty - 7.3.2008

MEPs Back Green Calls For Wolfowitz To Be Sacked After World Bank Corruption Scandal - 25.4.2007

Lucas Launches Bid To Protect Access to Medicines for World’s Poorest - 7.3.2007

EU Delay On Seal Fur Ban Will Mean 200,000 Deaths, Says MEP - 19.2.2007

Green MEP Demands EU Action On Arms Exports - 18.1.2007

Euro-MP Calls On EU To Suspend Israel Trade Deal At Portsmouth Palestine Meeting - 25.11.2006

World’s Biggest Cargo Ship Symbolises Economic Globalisation, Says MEP - 3.11.2006

Palestine Aid Package ‘Too Little, Too Late, Says Euro-MP - 19.7.2006

Poor Nations Would Be Better Off With No Deal Than A Bad One, Says MEP After WTO Talks Collapse - 26.6.2006

EU Must Maintain Payments To Palestine To Prevent Disaster, Warns Lucas At Rally - 17.5.2006

EU-Morocco Fishing Partnership Breaches International Law, Warns MEP - 17.5.2006

US Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan And European War Resisters To Give Evidence At Strasbourg Hearing - 9.3.2006

Greens Welcome EU Ban On Live Export Subsides As Lucas Co-Sponsored Written Declaration Becomes Law - 4.1.2006

Euro-MP Warns China And India Will Dominate Hi-Tech Sector - 7.12.2005

Blair’s EU Speech ‘Confused’, Says Green MEP - 26.10.2005

MEPs Sound Alarm Bell Over EU-China Trade - 13.10.2005

Blair Speech Signals Lurch To The Right, Says Euro-MP - 30.9.2005

MEPs Adopt Lucas Report On Trade Between The EU And China: ‘Bra Wars’ Spreading - 30.8.2005

US Faces Sanctions Call As Climate Change Treaty Comes Into Force - 15.2.2005

New Report: UK Is ‘Making Poverty Inevitable’ - 11.2.2005

Euro-MP Calls For International ‘Tsunami Tax’ - 27.1.2005

Letters and Replies

Correspondence about Taxation - 18.6.2008

Correspondence about Western Sahara - 7.5.2006

Correspondence about Animal Welfare and Trade - 7.12.2005

Correspondence about the WTO - 7.10.2005

In the Parliament

Resolution - Rising Food Prices - 14.5.2008

Written Questions - Western Sahara - 28.2.2008

Written Questions - Trade Negotiations - 5.12.2007

Written Questions - WTO - 7.6.2007

Written Questions - Animal Welfare And Trade - 2.6.2007

Written Declaration - Novartis - 30.5.2007

Written Questions - Taxation - 4.1.2007

Written Questions - Timber and Logging - 2.12.2006

Resolutions - Origin Marking - 6.7.2006

Resolutions - Development Aid - 6.2.2006

Resolutions - Trade Negotiations - 7.1.2006

Resolutions - WTO - 6.11.2005

Report - Trade With China - 4.9.2005

Written Declaration - Asian Tsunami - 30.4.2005

Written Questions - Development - 12.11.2003

Resolutions - African Human Rights and Development - 23.5.2003

Written Questions - Fair Trade - 15.11.2002

Report - Trading Relations with Mexico - 3.5.2001

Reports

Fuelling A Food Crisis - 8.12.2006

The Last Colonial Delusion - 1.12.2005

EU-China Trade - 16.6.2005

Making Poverty Inevitable - 12.3.2005

Time To Replace Globalisation - 15.1.2002

EU-Mexico Trade - 21.2.2001

From Seattle to Nice - 16.10.2000

What’s Wrong With The Euro? - 16.3.2000

Articles

No green light for occupiers - Jewish Socialist magazine, Spring 2008 - 1.5.2008

** WEB EXCLUSIVE: No Middle Ground In The Middle East ** - 5 February 2008 - 5.2.2008

Disaster Strikes - 19.2.2003

Asking Uncomfortable Questions - Caroline on the EU and US response to the events of September 11th 2001 - 23.10.2001

Speeches

(Listen & Watch) Trade Justice - 10.6.2008

Plenary - Trade Negotiations - 23.4.2008

Plenary - Textiles - 4.12.2007

Plenary - Animal Welfare And Trade - 6.9.2006

Plenary - Trade With China - 6.9.2006

Plenary - Millennium Development Goals - 6.2.2006

Plenary - WTO - 24.9.2003

Plenary - Crisis on the International Coffee Market - 10.4.2003

Iraq - Stop the War Rally February 2003 - 15.2.2003

Plenary - ACP - 26.9.2002

Plenary - Transatlantic Relations including Steel Import Tariffs (Continuation) - 13.3.2002

Plenary - Extension of Duty-Free Access to Least-Developed Country Products - 15.5.2001

GATS - An EU Perspective - 29.3.2001

Plenary - EC/Mexico Agreement - 14.2.2001

Plenary - VAT - 13.12.2000

Plenary - Preparation of Nice European Council and Trade Policy - 29.11.2000

Plenary - South Africa - 15.5.2000