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India NZ FTA fails the Interim Tiriti o Waitangi assessment
Usually at this stage of a trade negotiation, Ngā Toki Whakarururanga would have prepared a Tiriti o Waitangi assessment of the recently concluded free trade agreement between India and New Zealand, based on having confidential access to the negotiating text.
India’s trade policy shift in the EU and US trade deals: Serious implications for Indian citizens and its development pathway
Serious concerns have been raised about both the lack of transparency in the negotiation process and the potential long-term consequences of the agreements.
The battle over seeds in Latin America: the legal siege and people’s response
Corporate encroachment is increasingly disguised as legal protection. Under laws that allegedly safeguard seeds, doors are opened for their registration, certification, or privatisation.
Food is not a commodity: Mobilization in Bizkaia against EU-Mercosur free trade agreement
A caravan of peasant farmers and ranchers with their tractors left from different parts of the province of Bizkaia in Bilbao (Spain) to Bilbao to express their rejection of the free trade policies being promoted by the European Union.
EU-Morocco Statement: autonomy without self-determination, law without lawfulness
A joint statement that came out of last week’s EU-Morocco Association Council asks readers to believe in a fiction: that an undefined autonomy plan imposed by an occupying power can satisfy the right to self-determination, and that respect for international law can coexist with the systematic ignoring of the EU’s own highest court.
