London: Hidden EU Immigration Policy Uncovered « Citizen's Free ...
By Linda Kaucher
While political reporters for the most part ignore the EU, British domestic policy is actually formulated to fit not just with internal EU directives , but, importantly, with the EU’s external international trade agenda.
This broader policy affects people’s lives here, particularly their employment and that of their children and grandchildren in the future. Yet information on this broader picture, the parts of EU trade policy that will affect people most, is kept from them.
A very relevant and major feature of EU trade policy is the concession that allows transnational corporations to bring workers into the EU. In tradespeak this is called ‘Mode 4′.
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) defines four modes for cross-border trade in services: via internet ( Mode 1 ); where the customer crosses borders e.g. tourism and the international student market ( Mode 2 ); where a company establishes in another country ( Mode 3 ); and by moving workers across borders (Mode 4).
Moving workers from a lower to a higher socio-economic country is a very profitable business for the transnational corporations that are in a position to benefit, on a par with moving production and service work to cheaper labour areas of the world.
With the WTO Doha deal apparently abandoned, the EU has been negotiating a set of bilateral and regional trade deals with much of the world. These deals are more secretive than WTO negotiations, with the contents of negotiations kept private until those negotiations are completed.
But investigative work has revealed the urgency of the situation.
The EU is including Mode 4 concessions in all of the deals it is currently negotiating. In fact Mode 4 is the carrot, to obtain, in exchange, investment opportunity access into trading partner countries for transnational financial services corporations, which are for the most part based in London.
Actually these corporations benefit from both sides of the deals. They get the investment opportunities but also cheap labour brought in, and, as this ‘reserve army of labour’ undermines the power of organised labour, strengthening the power of capital in its balance of power with labour.
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