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There are parallels with the problematic Mercosur-EU trade agreement as Indonesian NGOs reveal the lack of an impact assessment and concerns about human rights impacts.
13/10/2021
Civil society’s fears that human rights and the environment would lose out now appear well founded.
16/09/2021
Jair Bolsonaro is finally facing global opposition to the destruction he has wrought, so why is the EU still considering signing the Mercosur trade deal?
14/07/2021
Trade ministers cannot see eye to eye when the EU-Mercosur agreement is in the picture
10/06/2021
With significant adjustments, EU trade deals now being negotiated could help tackle climate change.
04/05/2021
The agreement innovates by linking tariff reductions to sustainability – but fails to integrate governance reform.
08/04/2021
What is the point of an impact study carried out after the fact?
Ursula von der Leyen is the first European Union (EU) Commission President to publicly recognise how important forests are to life on our planet. But with the climate crisis and biodiversity collapse looming, time is short to turn...
24/03/2021
Environmental and human rights organisations have welcomed today’s European Ombudsman finding of maladministration by the Commission. It found that the Commission failed to complete a timely assessment of the social and...
19/03/2021
The first trade and sustainable development dispute panel decision exposes the limits of sustainable development chapters in trade agreements.
03/03/2021
