ISDS Case Map
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Canada's Treasury Board President Tony Clement has invoked cabinet secrecy rules to avoid answering questions on hundreds of millions in federal funding earmarked to help Newfoundland and Labrador adjust to the Canada-European Union free trade deal.
European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht has said that the national parliaments of the 28 EU member states will “very likely” need to ratify the future EU-US free trade agreement that is currently being negotiated.
Cast your mind ahead five years.
Most people probably can’t say with certainty what their lives will be like in 2019.
In a worst-case scenario, it could take that long to put the much-hyped Canada-European Union free trade deal into place.
Palestinian civil society has today welcomed reports that the EU will no longer allow poultry and eggs from illegal Israeli settlements to enter the EU, in what amounts to the first EU ban on any Israeli products.
A member of the Socialist Forum of Ghana and Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt, has asked civil society groups, Trades Unions and faith based organisations to strongly kick against the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA.
Nigeria's House of Representatives has invited the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment to brief it on details of the EU’s proposed Economic Partnership Agreement and present the worst case scenario should Nigeria refuse to sign it.
Targeting the Greens might play well with some business leaders in Brussels, but you have hundreds of civil society groups to answer to, too.
Dated 20 September 2013, leaked by Huffington Post on 19 May 2014. See Wikipedia analysis here.
“With a new Indian government expected to put long-stalled EU free trade talks at the top of its agenda, the mango ban could not have come at a worse time as it risks souring discussions before they even get going,” Allie Renison of business lobby group the Institute of Directors wrote in the Daily Telegraph.
The European Commission has published negotiating positions in five more topics of its current talks with the US on a future trade and investment deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
