b'8.2. Free trade agreements Though free trade agreements (FTAs) can(dc) to express concern about Canadian move us closer to open, free trade, the EUsfederal and regional governments elite continually insist on inserting non-tradeattempts to interfere and undermine politics into FTAs the EU seeks to negotiate the integrity of EU climate legislation, in thereby politicising trade. We are not againstparticular as regards greenhouse gas the agreements themselves, but the generalemission values for tar sand-derived principle is that, our trade is being used totransport fuels; finds it particularly promote other peoples policies, with whichunwelcome as Canada has not respected we in the UK may or may not agree.its international greenhouse gas reduction commitments Article 267 of the EUs Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru states that eachThough neither of these amendments were side reaffirms its commitmentto promoteadopted, they nonetheless reveal the Greens international trade in such a way as toskill and adroitness in exploiting the EUs contribute to the objective of sustainablecontrol over trade to advance the Greens development and to work together toown specific political agenda. In the EU, the integrate and reflect this objective in theirGreens are a powerful and politically skilful trade relationship.grouping. This contrasts with the Greens minimal representations in the UK. It further lays out the ways in which the parties are to attain this objective, includingConclusion to strengthen compliance with the labour and environmental legislation of each PartyThe EUs control over trade and trade together with international conventions, andagreementsin the jargon of the treaties also to strengthen the commitmentto labourEU competence is normally justified on principles and rights.the basis that this is the price we pay for the Single Market. As we have seen, a country The EUs Comprehensive Economic anddoes not have to be an EU member state Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada,to have access to the EU Single Market. concluded in draft form on 1 August 2014,Notwithstanding,the next chapterlooks was another target for the politicisationofat the costs of the Single Market and its trade, especially on the part of the Greens inconsequences as the EU has constituted it.the European Parliament. In addition to the blatant trade related For the Committee on Foreign Affairsfalsehoods stated above, there (AFET) draft report on a Strategicare more widely disseminated and Partnership Agreement (SPA) with Canada,deliberate misrepresentations. These which the text states is . complementarymisrepresentationsfrom Senior [with the CETA] in strengthening the EU- Conservatives including our former Prime Canada relationship, Reinhard ButikoferMinisterrelate to the free movement MEP proposed the following amendments:of people and the EUs so-called Single Market. These are the subject of the next (db) to regret that Canada has not beenchapter.an ally in finding international agreement to limit climate change to below 2C compared to pre-industrial levels; 105'