The European Union is expected to open its markets to Vietnam on Wednesday, whil...
STRASBOURG/BRUSSELS - The European Union is expected to open its markets to Vietnam on Wednesday, while closing its trade doors with Cambodia, rewarding the former for progress on labor guarantees and sanctioning the latter for human rights abuses.
In Strasbourg, EU lawmakers will vote on a free-trade agreement struck with Vietnam, the EU’s most comprehensive such pact with a developing country and its second with a member of the Association of Southeast Asian nations . EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan told lawmakers in a debate on Tuesday that Vietnam’s human rights situation was “certainly an area of concern”, but said that forums such as an annual human rights dialogue were the way to address shortcomings.
By contrast, the European Commission is set to withdraw trade preferences from Cambodia under its “Everything But Arms” scheme for the world’s poorest 48 countries. The EU executive said in a report on Tuesday that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government had cracked down on opposition, civil society groups and the media over the past three years.
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