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EUROPEAN Union trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom attempted to sell the toxic TTIP trade deal at a university conference yesterday.
Ms Malmstrom, responsible for EU international trade, is seeking to rebrand the controversial investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
The “corporate court” system, which allows big business to sue governments that interfere with their profits, was rejected by an overwhelming 97 per cent in the European Commission’s biggest ever public consultation.
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
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
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT