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with – officials and business leaders, in order to use this intermediate
spring-board to achieve goals which would have proved impossible at
national level alone.
The structures described here prevent any kind of reformation of
the WTO, World Bank and IMF. Instead, member states should look
for ways of withdrawing from these institutions or of disbanding them
completely.
“We manifest our profound concern about the
possible negative impact that any international
instrument, such as free trade and investment
treaties, could have on water resources. We
reaffirm the sovereign right of the peoples to
exclude water, in all its uses and services, from
trade agreements.”
Complementary Declaration proposed by Uruguay, Bolivia, Venezuela,
Ecuador and other Latin American governments in advance of the
World Water Forum in Istanbul, March 16-22, 2009
9.10 The European Union
The European Union (EU), with its organs, guidelines and decrees, may
well be put into the same category as the World Bank, IMF and WTO.
That is why critics often refer to it as the “Little WTO”. Yet it all began
“harmlessly” enough. In 1952, only years after the Second World
War had come to an end, the European Coal and Steel Community,
otherwise known as the Montanunion, was set up on the initiative of
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