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EUROPEAN governments failed to sign off the European Union-Canada trade deal known as Ceta (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) yesterday.
Campaign group Global Justice Now welcomed the delay to the deal, which it claims will lead to an increase in the power of big business over food standards, public services and decision-making.
But EU chiefs will meet for a two-day summit from Thursday that will seek to “settle final reservations” over signing off the treaty, Slovakian Foreign Trade Minister Peter Ziga said.
In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare
