Saskia Bricmont
Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA), Saskia Bricmont is deeply committed to human rights, environmental justice, and fair international trade. She is one of the leading figures in the European campaign against the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, denouncing its devastating consequences for tropical forests and Indigenous Peoples.
In the film Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth, she provides crucial political insight, placing the struggles taking place in the Amazon within a European framework of responsibility and coherence. Through her interventions, she highlights the urgent need to align the EU’s trade policies with its climate commitments and fundamental values.