France is opposed to the treaty of free trade with the US

The question of agreements between the European Union and the United States for free trade, promises to become an additional argument can raise doubts about the future of Brussels. These days, France has taken a clearly negative official position against the terms of the agreement, formalizing the good thoughts critical part of social movements in Europe. The agreement has seemed, in fact, from the start, too unbalanced in favor of Washington and its products, penalizing, above all, the European agri-food sector. It must be specified that the United States has maintained a too rigid position, which provided the feeling of only protect too many interests, interpreting, in the negotiations, a role not at all cooperative, which returned no openings around the instances of countries Mediterranean and especially of France. The location in Paris is not shared by Germany, which opposed the interest determined by an entirely different production sector to that of France and Italy. Berlin fact continued to be favorable to the rules imposed by Washington, identifying them as an economic opportunity and a flywheel capable of doing to grow their economies. This has created a fracture, yet another, within the Union, in a way that threatens the balance further in the European Union, already suffering from the economic crisis and the exit of Britain. In an absolute sense French reasons, shared in part from Italy, can not be challenged: the United States wants to impose rules that are their own, both in the production and sale of goods, which in the process of arbitration, rules, if implemented, would lower the protection and safety of European consumers criteria, especially with regard to the food sector, and would penalize the producers, which would compete with industries subject to fewer checks and restraints. It is, of course, different sensibilities, which seem irreconcilable, when compared to the American vision, too liberal in matters of food safety. Seen from this perspective one understands how the affinity between Americans and Germans is greater than that which is recorded on these issues between Berlin and Paris. But this creates a dangerous obstacle to all those processes that should ensure the survival of European, especially after English output episode. Perhaps it was appropriate not to get to this point and clarify the ideas on the agreement of free trade with the United States, first of all within the European members. American pressure, to arrive at the conclusion of the treaty, however, more and more distant, could turn into a very dangerous division factor, at a delicate time for the European Union, the subject of revitalizing the economy through less rigidity the public finances of individual countries, which is a source of division between the countries of southern Europe and Germany. A negative view of the said Agreement on free trade is also an interpretation of the problems that globalization may result; this vision by the identification part of this Agreement and the rules that wants to change and impose as a push toward a negative sense globalization, a mode where you had to flee to find a way more respectful of local issues. These issues have now gone beyond the original patterns of the left, from where they started, to be embraced by the more conservative formations, up to the populist forces, who use them to criticize the settings on which the European Union. This argument must be an element of careful analysis, to avoid increasing the anti-European positions, which were already too many topics on which to leverage; therefore the current situation must be used to unite European countries, rather than divide them, without giving priority, once again, only the economic aspect to the detriment of factors that can be referred to in more intrinsic way to individual countries and, if added together, may constitute part of the expression can give form, in a substantial manner the European Union. It is identity reasons and principles by which it should be impossible to depart and to be used as a basis to restart the EU constitution spirit. It is, in essence, an investment in the future not only political, but also economic mainstream of Europe, which is to develop and protect their products of excellence, which must be seen not as an expression of one or a few nations, but brought back to a common value. With these basics you can get more not only in the Treaty with the United States, but by the same ratios among European Union members.