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13-Apr-2023 Global Times
China, Serbia announce official launch of FTA negotiations: MOFCOM
China’s Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao met with Serbia’s Minister of Domestic and Foreign Trade Tomislav Momirovic, jointly signing a memorandum of understanding to start negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
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29-Mar-2023 Devex
Hungary digs in against Europe’s Africa-Caribbean-Pacific deal
Something has to give, and it’s either Hungary, the European Union, or a decadeslong partnership between the EU and 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific states that many say has had its day.
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27-Jan-2023 Business Recorder
BIT with Hungary likely next month
Pakistan and Hungary are likely to finalise Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) next month during the visit of Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to Budapest.
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7-Dec-2022 Business Recorder
Proposed BIT with Hungary: Differences emerge between BoI, ministries over proposal
There are two sticking points in the negotiations of the Pakistan-Hungary BIT: one is “Expropriation” and the other is “Subrogation”.
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16-Jul-2021 GRAIN
Los tratados de libre comercio siguen privatizando la biodiversidad
Durante los últimos 30 años, los países industrializados han estado obligando a los gobiernos de los países no industrializados a adoptar leyes que privatizan las semillas, exigiendo que agricultores, campesinas y campesinos paguen por ellas para mantener a las empresas semilleras a flote.
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15-Jul-2021 GRAIN
Des accords commerciaux qui privatisent la biodiversité
Les pays industrialisés forcent les gouvernements du Sud à adopter des lois qui privatisent les semences, principalement les accords de libre-échange.
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15-Jul-2021 GRAIN
Trade agreements privatising biodiversity
For the past 30 years, industrialised countries have been forcing governments of the global South to adopt laws that privatise seeds, mainly through free trade agreements.
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22-Jun-2021 The Malaysian Reserve
Govt has taken steps to amend regulations to comply with RCEP – Hasnol
The Malaysia government has taken steps to amend relevant laws and regulations to comply with the obligations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement.
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1-Dec-2020 Counter Punch
Far from a change, RCEP agreement is more capitalism as usual
“It’s not as bad as the worst agreements out there” really shouldn’t be a cause for celebration.
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20-Oct-2020 Reuters
Hungary’s OTP sues Croatia for loan conversion damages
OTP Bank has sued the Croatian government to recover about $34.60 million it lost during a mandatory conversion of Swiss franc-denominated loans to euro-based loans in 2015.
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3-Mar-2020 FTA Watch
What Deputy PM Somkid didn’t say: disasters loom large as Thai government eager to join CPTPP
FTA Watch and Thai civil society slammed government’s attempt to push Thailand into CPTPP FTA while the country have no negotiating power; risking negative impacts on Thai small farmers, rights over seeds and breeds, and access to medicine.
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16-Jan-2020 Blue Radio
Uber, ¿El capitalismo salvaje del siglo XXI?
En Colombia, Uber se atribuyó la facultad de imponer tarifas por encima de la autoridad competente, violando el Código Penal y también leyes del transporte.
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17-Jun-2019 Budapest Business Journal
Hungary appeals Sodexo award with ICSID
Hungary has filed to annul an award of some EUR 73 million, before interest, to French food voucher company Sodexo, granted in an arbitration ruling by the World Bankʼs International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), state news agency MTI reported, citing case information on ICSIDʼs website.
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13-Jun-2019 Imagen Agropecuaria
Firma de TMEC abriría la puerta a patentar genes y cobro de regalías a agricultores de México por parte de transnacionales
Investigadores advirtieron que si el Senado mexicano ratifica el TMEC en los términos actuales México tendría la obligatoriedad de adherirse al Acta UPOV 91, en un lapso de cuatro años como límite, lo que permite patentar genes y variedades, limitar el uso e intercambio de semillas por parte de los agricultores.
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12-May-2019 The Diplomat
Is Indonesia’s IPR Framework incompatible with RCEP?
On intellectual property rights, there’s a serious gap between domestic Indonesian law and the structures of the proposed RCEP
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15-Jan-2019 Budapest Business Journal
Szijjártó meets with Belarusian counterpart in Minsk
Hungary and Belarus signed an investment protection agreement.
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11-Jan-2019 Lexology
The IP implications of the USMCA: Who needs to do what
The USMCA most closely reflects US IP laws, subjecting the US to almost no revisions of its current domestic intellectual property laws.
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1-Jun-2018 Asia Times
China’s Belt and Road a dilemma for Germany
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi tried to ease Germany’s concerns over Beijing’s cooperation with 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, which many European Union leaders consider a threat to the bloc’s integration, during his visit to Berlin on Thursday.
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30-Nov-2017 Global Times
Chinese premier’s Hungary visit further enhances bilateral ties, China-CEE cooperation
China is willing to better dovetail the Belt and Road Initiative with Hungarian development strategies, expand bilateral trade and investment scale.
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24-Jan-2017 Budapest Business Journal
On failing TTIP, Orbán urges new Hungary-U.S. pact
The Hungarian government is seeking to sign a “new” trade pact with the United States as the planned TTIP “will not happen”