Since Ars wrote about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) last year, it has gradually moved up the UK's political agenda, culminating in the recent pledge by Jeremy Corbyn to ...

As relations with the Trump administration remain fraught and uncertain, trade ministers from Canada and the European Union ...

The European Court of Justice's decision: On 30 April 2019, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) issued its much-anticipated Opinion 1/17 finding that the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism ...

Go to bed with Trudeau, wake up with Trump? Alex Scrivener explains why the CETA trade deal could be a disaster The idea of a trade deal with Trump scares people. And quite rightly too. After all, the ...

The Italian government has offered to block a move to give national parliaments—and hence some 500 million European citizens—a say on the CETA deal between the EU and Canada. The national legislatures ...

Article 1 of the proposed new rules provides that their objective is to "increase accessibility" and "reduce the costs" of investor-state dispute resolution proceedings for individual claimants and ...

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Jean Charest is the former premier of Quebec from 2003-2012 and a partner at McCarthy Tétrault. Jean-Pierre Raffarin is the former prime minister of France from 2002-2005 and president of Leaders pour ...

A coalition of over 450 civil society groups from Europe and Canada has signed an open letter pleading legislators to vote against the deal, fearing it will erode public power over the dietary and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Last week Free Lunch urged all parties to keep calm and carry on with the EU-Canada trade deal known as Ceta.