For example, it is this document that cites that the free trade with Honduras amounts to 71 minutes of trade with our partner to the south, and the value of it is questioned.

Today I should just like to use my two minutes of speaking time to discuss the topic of emissions trading, because it is closest to my heart.

– (FR) Mr President, I only have one minute, but I wanted to say that, during this financial crisis, you yourself have managed to overturn the institutional dogmas: Brussels, Frankfurt, competition, the Maastricht criteria, the global free trade system, the ban on State aid for businesses and, in particular, for the banks, and so on.

This piece of trickery does not disguise the fact that the aim is the ‘establishment in time of a free trade area’, providing in its ‘negotiating guidelines for gradual reciprocal trade liberalisation’ (which has been softened at the last minute by adding, ‘in conditions of justice and mutual benefit based on complementarity and solidarity’), aiming to ‘negotiate a single and indivisible trade agreement which goes beyond the negotiating parties’ present and future WTO obligations, and establish over a transition period compatible with WTO requirements a Euro-Latin America Global Interregional Association Area. without excluding any secto ...[+++]r’. , developing a ‘customs union’ and a ‘common internal market’, guaranteeing ‘market access in agriculture’ and in services (except health and education).

This is why, at the last minute, in certain points of the resolution, the European Parliament has replaced a clear indication of its aim, the creation of a ‘free trade area’, with the phrase ‘Euro-Latin American area of interregional partnership’, while maintaining the content of the former as the objectives of the latter.

I see, though, that Mr Evans and Mrs Riis-Jørgensen are here, and so we can, anyway, give a repeat of our performance in committee, swapping our positions on this issue.