In 2016 and 2017 the European Union (EU) Institutions published various relevant strategies and policy documents in the areas of trade and sustainable development; virtually all of them explicitly recognise the contribution of Fair Trade (or at least ‘fair and ethical trade’, as put forward by the European Commission (EC) to the achievement of the EU´s own goal of sustainable development. This includes the EC staff working paper of November 2016 on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, the European Consensus on Development of May 2017, the European Parliament (EP) self-initiative report of September 2017 on trade and global value chains and the update to the EU Joint Aid for Trade strategy of November 2017. This would have not been possible without the EP Fair Trade Working Group, an informal group of Members of the EP committed to promoting an enabling environment for Fair Trade at the EU level.
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