ISDS Case Map
EU
European Union
While this deal aims to strengthen trust in digital trade, attention needs to be paid to ensure strong and consistent consumer protection on both sides.
The EUSDTA delivers high-standard rules for digital trade and facilitates secure flows of data across borders, providing greater legal certainty and clarity for businesses and people transacting in the digital economy.
Australian and European officials are scrambling to bridge the gap for an elusive free trade agreement as diplomatic heavyweights prepare a meeting to seal the deal.
The EU–India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has raised concerns in neighboring countries Bangladesh and Pakistan, as it grants Indian goods duty-free access to 93% of the European market. This threatens the competitive advantage these nations have long held in European textile exports, which are vital to their economies.
Its conclusion has been driven in large part by shifting geopolitical pressures from Washington and Beijing, which have forced both Brussels and New Delhi to reassess their strategic positioning.
“The EU is at a fork in the road: It can follow the US down a volatile, destructive path or it can forge its own course toward stability.”
Lawmakers want agreement to be voided if US president threatens Greenland again.
The Working Group points out that the European Commission's press release states the agreement provides for a high level of protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property rights, including copyright, trademarks, designs, trade secrets and plant variety rights.
A landmark trade deal struck by India and the European Union on Tuesday will not trigger any changes to the bloc's carbon border tariff, EU officials said, despite India's concerns over the scheme.
The free trade agreement between the European Union and India underscores the EU’s efforts to ink new global partnerships at a time when the Trump administration has rattled the region’s capitals which have long relied on a stable relationship with Washington on trade, defense and diplomacy.
