CETA has been consistently in the news ever since campaigners called to postpone voting on its investors’ protection element back in December 2020. But we wanted to dig deeper on the issue – so a while back we chatted to Independent Senator Alice-Mary Higgins to help us do just that. Read more…
11 February 2021 A grassroots group known as “Stop CETA Ireland” has launched a campaign to stop the Irish government from ratifying the controversial Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada. The campaign started to take shape on social media earlier this month, and has since started Read more…
14 December 2020 Academics and civil society organisations are urging the Government to postpone a vote on a Canada-Europe trade agreement, which they warn would hinder progress on environmental and social protections. The Dail is set to vote on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) tomorrow, a mixed agreement Read more…
March 7th, 2018 A landmark European Court of Justice ruling has found the investor-state dispute settlement system in a treaty between Slovakia and the Netherlands incompatible with EU law. The ruling could now impact around 200 other Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) agreements between EU Member States which also contain the Read more…
September 7th, 2017 The legality of the controversial Investment Court System (ICS) in the EU-Canada free trade deal is set to be scrutinized by Europe’s highest court following a request from the Belgian government. Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister, Didier Reynders, yesterday officially requested that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) provide Read more…
July 26th, 2017 The very fabric of rural Ireland is under threat by the contentious EU-Canada trade deal, with the farming community set to be hit hardest, says leading rural politician. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is set to be provisionally applied from September after Canada and the Read more…
July 10th, 2017 The controversial Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will be provisionally applied from 21 September after Canada and the European Union reached an agreement at the G20 meeting in Hamburg. In a joint statement issued last weekend, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker Read more…
July 10th, 2017 Since his election as leader of the Canadian government in 2015, Justin Trudeau has been celebrated as a liberal icon due to his progressive stance on many issues around human rights and equality, as well as his public image as a youthful and fun-loving politician (he has Read more…
July 5th, 2017 The EU-Canada trade deal is a “rotten agreement” that undermines democracy and must be rejected by the Dail, oppositions TDs said yesterday as the Canadian Prime Minister began his tour of Ireland. Speaking at a protest outside Government Buildings yesterday afternoon, politicians from the Green Party, Sinn Read more…
4th July 2017 A unique coalition of farming, business, trade union, civil society and environmental groups have voiced their collective concern about the proposed EU-Canadian trade deal in advance of tomorrow’s state visit by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The groups highlighted Mr Trudeau’s visit as part of a publicity Read more…
