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by Our Foreign Desk
THE Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership being negotiated in secret by the EU and US could spell disaster for European agriculture, an Irish MEP said yesterday.
Sinn Fein’s Matt Carthy warned Irish farmers to be “extremely concerned” about EU trade deals with the US and Canada following a meeting between the European Parliament’s agriculture and rural development committee and TTIP negotiators from the unelected European Commission.
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
