Portal de Cartagena
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The mayor, Jose Lopez, received on the morning of Monday, February 8 to the MEP can, Lola Sanchez, to explain to the municipal corporation that is treated Transatlantic Trade and Investment (TTIP), which is currently in procedures for negotiations between the European Commission and the United States, and who know what is going to affect both member states and municipalities and municipalities.
This meeting s urgent after the motion was to present the Cartagena municipal group Si Se Puede in the previous full to declare disobedience Cartagena to TTIP and knowing the necessary information on the agreement of the labor MEP Lola Sanchez has worked on the subject throughout his political life.
In the words of the MEP, this agreement would limit the regulatory capacity of municipalities as it gets in the way of issues within its exclusive competence the management of public procurement and competition bidding, imposing rules on the council will not to refuse full although most want to do otherwise.
Thus, a municipality will have to deal equally to a foreign investor to a local SME when it comes to public procurement, which is absolutely unfair, he said.
Lola Sanchez added that at heart it remains but a coup against democracy at all levels of government, including the town hall, because it will not matter who is governing if tied to performance standards which has not been reported and it has not been consulted, and being managed in complete darkness in offices behind closed doors at the European Commission.
The mayor has indicated its interest in being informed about the TTIP and you can hear the viewpoint of the MEP and advance informing the public, with strong feet, with the information needed to act accordingly.
After this first contact, it has raised the possibility of round tables as Cartagena Futuro in talks which also MEP you count people who can think for and against the initiative. In addition, thereupon to the reception, there has been a talk to who have been invited all political groups in the municipality so they could be informed about the content of the treaty.
Lopez also noted that extrapolate understand anything that is good for Cartagena to the Federation of Municipalities of the Region of Murcia, in order to move forward together as we are already doing through the pooling of services.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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