I’m writing to thank you for taking our recent
action and writing to your MEPs to vote to refer
CETA to the European Court of Justice.
The vote took place today and unfortunately
we lost the vote 258 voting for the referral and
415 voting to block it.
But it’s not all bad news. It is likely
that there will now be a delay in the timing of
the ratification vote on CETA. It’s
currently set for 14 December, and we’re hoping that
it will be delayed until mid-February. This will
allow other committees to provide opinions and
hopefully sway some opinions before that vote takes
place.
Looking at the numbers in today’s votes, they are
actually slightly better than our estimate was – and
we now need to persuade less than a 100 extra MEPs
to defeat CETA. The mountain we need to
climb is a bit smaller than the mountain we faced
this morning!
We need to keep the pressure on the MEPs. Please
keep pushing and please try to get as many other
people involved. This is a fight we can
win!
We will be organising more actions and stepping up
this fight against CETA – whenever the vote is set
for.
Thank you for your support.
Guy Taylor,
Campaigner at Global Justice Now