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The island is being sued by a mining company over its decision, and faces paying nine times its annual budget in damages if it loses.
Kazakhstan has overturned a $54.5 million arbitral award previously granted to World Wide Minerals Ltd., a Canadian junior miner, in relation to a terminated uranium processing project.
Amidst all the chaos brought on by Trump’s tariff threats, Canada’s federal trade minister celebrated a minor win this month: the finalization of a trade agreement with Ecuador.
The EU should adopt a pragmatic and open approach, pursuing CTIPs with countries with vast resources of raw materials and minerals, and with countries that present opportunities for cooperation on clean tech, based on a value-chain approach.
On February 20, 2025, the Lisbon Court of Appeal issued an Order granting Gold Reserve’s application to confirm the award in Portugal.
Over 120 civil society organizations and trade unions from Indonesia and Europe today call on the Indonesian government and the EU to stop the negotiations for the Indonesia-EU free trade agreement – the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). The organizations warn that this agreement threatens the environment, climate, and the rights of women, Indigenous Peoples, workers, small farmers and fisherfolk.
CSOs in Europe and Indonesia are urging the EU and Indonesia to stop CEPA negotiations. The agreement threatens the environment, climate, and the rights of vulnerable groups, while hindering Indonesia's ability to develop its own raw materials value chain. The groups also raise concerns about privatization of energy, investor protections, and the inclusion of elements from Indonesia's "Omnibus Law," which weakens labor protections.
Ecuador's largest Indigenous organization is vowing to fight a now-concluded free trade agreement with Canada, warning it could encourage human rights abuses in the ecologically and culturally diverse South American country.
The second round of negotiations for a comprehensive and ambitious free trade agreement between the European Union and the Philippines will commence today in Manila amidst an unfolding trade war among the major trade powers triggered by Trump’s tariffs.
The President of Ecuador announced that after months of negotiations his country has finally reached a trade agreement with Canada, although he did not give a date for its signing and entry into force.
