EU-MERCOSUR : THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF PESTICIDES

  May 10, 2021

Justice Pesticides is happy to inform you about this interesting webinar organized by Members of the European Parliament from GUE on Tuesday, May 11, at 5pm, Brussels time.

We are honored that the new report from our Brazilian board member Larissa Mies Bombardi ““Geography of Asymmetry, Circle of Poison and Molecular Colonialism in the Commercial Relationship between Mercosur and the EU” will be presented.

Justice Pesticides board member Peter Clausing and general delegate Arnaud Apoteker will be among the four discussants.

Please see below the link to attend the webinar and the invitation from GUE.

 

11 May 2021 from 17:00 to 19:00

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Interpretation FR, ES, PT, EN

European corporations massively export pesticides to Mercosur, destroying forests, displacing indigenous peoples and farmers, and poisoning local populations. These dangerous substances come back to the plates of the European consumers. Fortunately, citizens are reacting and pressuring governments to break this cycle. The Left group in the European Parliament has invited Prof Larissa Mies Bombardi of the University of Sao Paulo to present her new study “Geography of Asymmetry, Circle of Poison and Molecular Colonialism in the Commercial Relationship between Mercosur and the EU”, which illustrates those destructive relations that the treaty negotiated between the two regions would not change, but instead, reinforce.

Prominent experts and several parliamentarians from both regions will react to the presentation and comment on their actions and the new windows that are opening against the abusive use of pesticides.

 

PROGRAMME

 

Presentation and discussion of the study

GEOGRAPHY OF ASYMMETRY,

Cycle of Poison and Molecular Colonialism in the Commercial Relationship between Mercosur and the European Union”

commissioned by The Left group in the European Parliament

Welcoming words, by  Manon Aubry, co-president of The Left in the European Parliament

Introduction, by Helmut Scholz, MEP of The Left, Member of the Commission for International trade of the European Parliament

Presentation of the study, by Larissa Mies Bombardi, author of the Study, Prof of the Sao Paulo University

 

Discussion:

– Peter Clausing, PAN-Germany

– Nilto Toatto, Federal MP of Brasil and President of environmentalist front

– Arnaud Apoteker Justice Pesticide

– Sara Lickel, Institut Veblen

 

Conclusions:

– Lilian Galán, MP for El Frente Amplio of uruguay

– Stelios Kouloglou MEP of The Left, member of the EP Delegation for the relations with Mercosur

Date & Place

11.05.2021 – 11.05.2021