ISDS Case Map
EU
European Union
The European Union (EU) continues to push for more trade deals with major Asean economies despite making slow progress following its consecutive successes with Singapore and Vietnam last year.
On 5 May 2020, 23 Member States of the EU entered into an Agreement for the Termination of Bilateral Investment Treaties between the Member States of the European Union.
Britain and the European Union start their penultimate scheduled round of trade talks with little progress on major sticking points before a June deadline to agree on any extension of negotiations.
The implementation of the EU - Vietnam FTA deal also poses many challenges to Vietnamese agricultural products. Besides strict standards from the European Union market, competitive pressure in the domestic market is also a big issue.
A global tragedy at a high cost for taxpayers.
The impending vote has sparked anger from environmental organisations. Stop TTIP/CETA and Votum Klima for instance called the vote a political scandal.
Environmental safeguards within the agreement, which were already insufficient even before COVID-19, have now made the document outdated.
23 EU Member States signed an agreement for the termination of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties.
The Dutch and French Trade ministers are calling the EU to improve its approach in analyzing the socio-economic aspects of trade effects, and to increase its ambition regarding the nexus between trade and sustainable development.
74 NGOs have written to the EU Commission to demand that genetically modified crops are not pushed onto Europe's fields and plates as part of a trade deal with the USA.
