27 January this year the European Union signature in fresh Delhi a large trade deal with India, This agreement poses serious risks to drug safety, Polish agriculture, the labour marketplace and intellectual property. Its main beneficiary will, of course, be Germany, pursuing its interests without looking at the remainder of Europe.
The European Union does not want to slow down the thought of destroying its own economy, which is why the Indian "Mercosur" is coming. 1 of the most dangerous areas of the planned EU-India agreement is the pharmaceutical sector. The Indian country is 1 of the largest manufacturers of inexpensive medicines in the world, but it is widely known that their production standards frequently do not meet strict EU standards. They are produced in terrible hygienic conditions and with not full proven quality components, but are much cheaper.
Today, specified drugs are mainly found in mediocre countries of Central Asia and Africa. However, the planned trade agreement opens the door to increase their presence in Europe and the Union has no viable tools to effectively and systematically control the quality of each party. This is simply a direct threat to drug safety, based on advanced production standards and maker work so far. present this is simply a very large problem for medicines outside the EU, and it will be even bigger erstwhile Indian medicines are allowed into our market.
However, the agreement will mainly hit European steel industry. According to India's nearly decade-long strategy in 2030, the production capacity of the steel manufacture is expected to scope 300 million tonnes and the production of 255 million tonnes. The sector has been looking forward to the EU marketplace peculiarly since the introduction of 50% tariffs by the United States. We can so anticipate a flood of Indian steel and a wave of European steel bankruptcies.
In parallel, the agreement presents another threat to Polish agriculture. There is simply a hazard of imports of wheat from India, a country with completely different production realities, labour costs and state support. Even if the Indian agricultural sector is not geared towards mass export, marketplace beginning and capital inflows can change this quickly. For Polish farmers this means another price force and competition with production, which does not gotta meet the same environmental and quality standards.
It is worth pointing out that in India we are dealing with a real "third planet country" in which - despite authoritative democracy - the caste strategy inactive applies. As many as 70% of local workers work without a contract, and fewer have always heard of OSH. In turn, garbage is simply thrown out of a window, like gypsies, or into a local river. There is no waste segregation.
The movement of workers is no little dangerous. The agreement provides for easier exports of services and people, which in practice means a massive influx of workers from India to the European Union. We are officially talking about highly skilled specialists, but experience from erstwhile openings shows that migration rapidly gets out of control. It is simply a fresh direction of mass immigration that can shake the labour marketplace and social systems without any real public debate.
Economic cooperation with India besides carries a serious hazard of technology theft. The Indian marketplace is known for ignoring intellectual property rights, and copying Western solutions there is simply a common phenomenon. Transfer of technology, which sounds like an chance for Brussels, in practice means losing competitive advantage and giving distant know-how without a warrant of protection. It is no coincidence that Western companies from the highest technological shelves avoid placing key production processes there.
Germany has already shown clearly present who will benefit most from this agreement. It is their automotive manufacture that is most pressing to open the Indian marketplace and reduce customs duties. The EU's trade policy is one more time subordinate to Berlin's interests, and the costs of this strategy will be borne by states specified as Poland, which do not have comparable force of leverage either in the automotive manufacture or in political negotiations, especially under the pro-German, inept Donald Tusk team.
This must be made clear – this agreement is not a neutral trade agreement. This strategical decision, which increases the hazard to drug safety, weakens European and Polish steel industry, opens the door to a fresh wave of migration and exposes European technologies to systemic copying. In the name of geopolitical ambitions and German interests, the European Union one more time shifts real costs to average citizens and peripheral countries.
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