14.02.2015 - 09:34 [ Techdirt ]

Does Angela Merkel Want To Renegotiate The Corporate Sovereignty Chapter In EU-Canada Trade Agreement?

Techdirt hasn‘t written much recently about the trade agreement between the EU and Canada, generally known as CETA. That‘s because it is „finished“ — at least, in theory. It is now undergoing what is known as the „legal scrub“ to prepare it for the final ratification on both sides. One story we did write concerned questions about the agreement‘s compatibility with EU law, largely because of the corporate sovereignty provisions in CETA. Things have been fairly quiet since then, which makes the following story in the Canadian edition of Huffington Post, on a related aspect, particularly intriguing: