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Programme:

  • bilaterals.org’s 20th anniversary
  • The EU’s return to a wide-ranging free trade agenda (including deals with Mercosur, Mexico, Indonesia, Thailand, etc.)
  • Colombia’s ISDS reform
  • African countries’ ISDS cases against mining companies

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Programme:

  • La Via Campesina day of resistance against FTAs and the WTO
  • Ecuadorian rights defenders in Canada
  • AfCFTA digital trade protocol
  • UAE’s growing power

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This edition looks at the controversial link between special economic zones (SEZs) and the African Continental Free Trade Area, a continent-wide free trade agreement signed by all but one member of the African Union, which promotes the use of SEZs to further liberalise the economy, with potentially drastic consequences for the African people.

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Special edition on the 30th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement that came into force in 1994 and inspired many free trade agreements that were subsequently signed around the world.

Guests:

  • Ramón Vera Herrera (Alianza Biodiverdad)
  • Xavier León (GRAIN)
  • Camila Montecinos (ANAMURI)
  • Cecilia Cherrez (Acción Ecologica)
  • Manuel Perez Rocha (Institute for Policy Studies)

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