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Warsaw counts on Rome to block Mercosur deal
9-Dec-2024 Euractiv
As an EU-Mercosur deal was reached after 25 years, it faces one last stumbling block: member state approval and Poland hopes Italy will play a part in blocking the deal.
Italy wants changes to EU-Mercosur trade deal’s agriculture sections, minister says
5-Dec-2024 Reuters
Italy wants changes to agricultural sections of the draft EU-Mercosur trade deal with South American countries, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.
Italian Agriculture Minister comes out against draft EU-Mercosur trade pact
19-Nov-2024 The Brussels Times
Italy’s Agriculture Minister spoke out against the draft free trade agreement between the European Union and the South American Common Market, Mercosur.
Italian Deputy PM pledges to help pull through EU-Mercosur FTA
11-Oct-2024 MercoPress
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and top diplomat Antonio Tajani told a group of Brazilian businesspeople in Sao Paulo that they are working to accelerate the process and reach a positive conclusion.
Trade Agreement CETA threatens small and medium-scale livestock farms in Italy: ARI
6-Mar-2024 La Via Campesina
Associazione Rurale Italiana highlighted the deep damage that CETA causes to small and medium-scale livestock farms in Italy; the risks of further economic (and therefore decision-making) reinforcement of a single industrial group on the entire dairy sector.
Albanian PM threatens to quit international arbitration body
14-Apr-2023 Balkan Insight
Premier Edi Rama reacted angrily to a decision by a World Bank-funded international arbitration body to grant around 110 million euros in compensation to an Italian businessman who claimed he was politically persecuted in Albania.
Polluter doesn’t pay: The Rockhopper v Italy award
23-Jan-2023 EJIL: Talk!
The way in which the reasoning of the Rockhopper award expels any environmental considerations has the effect of making climate change interventions considerably more costly
Oil firm Rockhopper wins £210m payout after being banned from drilling
25-Aug-2022 The Guardian
Italian government ordered to compensate UK firm after exploration forbidden within 12 miles of coast.
A protest is taking place in Salisbury city centre today
19-May-2022 Salisbury Journal
Protestors will be gathering to march to the Rockhopper Exploration headquarters. The company is suing the Italian government for £236 million due to its refusal to allow oil drilling off the Adriatic Coast.
Outrage as Italy faces multimillion pound damages to UK oil firm
26-Jul-2021 The Guardian
Secretive tribunals allow fossil fuel companies to sue governments for passing laws to protect environment.
Could COVID-19 emergency measures give rise to investment claims? First reflections from Italy
31-Mar-2020 GAR
Emergency measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and protect the economy could lead to claims under bilateral investment treaties.
Italian construction company in legal dispute with Morocco’s AABV
27-Jun-2019 Morocco World News
The Italian company claims that Morocco has breached the 1990 Italy-Morocco bilateral investment treaty provisions.
Italy joins China’s Belt and Road Initiative
25-Mar-2019 Al Jazeera
Italy is the first G7 country to sign up to the scheme, in a move that has caused upset in Washington and Brussels.
Italy is reportedly going to support China’s Belt and Road program
6-Mar-2019 CNBC
Italy is in negotiations to sign a memorandum of understanding in support of the program by the end of March, says official
Italy threatens to bring down EU-Canada free trade deal
31-Jul-2018 WSJ
Citing farmers’ complaints, antiestablishment government vows to seek parliamentary veto, which would annul pact for all partners
Hard cheese: Italy vows to scupper EU free trade deal with Canada
14-Jul-2018 The Guardian
Italy will not ratify the EU’s free trade agreement with Canada, the Italian deputy prime minister has said, potentially scuppering the bloc’s biggest deal in years.
Sushma Swaraj discusses steps to revitalise bilateral ties with Italy
19-Jun-2018 DNA
India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held bilateral talks with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to discuss forging bilateral cooperation across sectors and steps to revitalise the bilateral relationship.
Italy won’t ratify EU free-trade accord with Canada - farm minister
14-Jun-2018 Reuters
taly will not ratify the European Union’s free trade agreement with Canada because it does not ensure sufficient protection for the country’s specialty foods.
Italian populists post final version of gov’t "contract"
21-May-2018 Xinhua
The document opposes international trade treaties such as the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Italy’s farmers ’demonizing’ Canadian wheat in bid to protect domestic industry
7-Jul-2017 CBC
Mobilized by the largest agricultural organization in Europe, the farmers converged to turn up the heat on Italian politicians faced with ratifying the controversial Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA.