ISDS Case Map
EU
European Union
The EU-Morocco agreement favours powerful lobbies and actors, marginalises European farmers and the Sahrawi people, and fails to comply with international law.
Farmers across Poland held coordinated protests to voice concerns about the planned EU–Mercosur trade deal and its potential impact on domestic agriculture.
The French government said it was tightening checks on several food imports in a bid to ease concerns of farmers who have been protesting at what they say is unfair competition from countries with looser regulations.
With India-EU free trade agreement negotiations in final stages, Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal will visit Brussels this week for what could be the last set of meetings between the trade leadership of both sides on the talks before the India-EU Summit later this month.
The European Commission is aiming to sign the free trade agreement with the Mercosur countries on 12 January in Paraguay, European sources said.
The European Union is delaying a massive free-trade deal with South American countries after fiery protests by farmers and last-minute opposition by France and Italy threatened to derail the pact.
Proponents argue the agreement would provide an alternative to Beijing's export controls and Washington's tariff policies. Critics warn it would weaken environmental regulations and damage the EU's agricultural sector.
To be more explicit, predatory practices have always existed and are becoming more pronounced, solely for the benefit of the king and his oligarchs, who are imposing an agro-export model that is disastrous for the population and the environment. Large retailers in France and Europe also play very damaging role: that of importing tomatoes produced… in the middle of the desert.
Farmers from Mig, AbL, FUGEA, Boerenforum, and La Confédération Paysanne gathered at this key hub for international trade with a common message that firmly rejects the EU-Mercosur treaty.
The EU institutions agreed to strengthen protections for European farmers under a trade deal with the Mercosur bloc, in an eleventh-hour push to rally heavyweights France and Italy into backing the controversial pact.
