Inside global Europe - Explaining Europe's trade strategy

The European Union’s Global Europe trade strategy has been driven by the demands of corporate lobbyists in Brussels and is aimed at securing a number of regional trade deals designed to ratchet open markets in the developing world. The World Development Movement (WDM) believes that these agreements will legally ‘lock in’ a series of policies that will undermine the ability of these countries to provide basic needs, reduce poverty and develop. In this briefing WDM analyses how Europe’s trade deals could impact on the poor.