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    15th October 2020

    How trade policy can support good environmental practice

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    10th July 2020

    Inquiry opened over EU failure to consider environmental and social impacts of South American trade deal

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    16th June 2020

    We take action against the EU for failing to consider environmental and social impacts of South American trade deal

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    24th April 2020

    Energy Charter Treaty Reform – a missed opportunity to support the EU’s climate action and the clean energy transition

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    3rd May 2019

    EU top Court misses opportunity to protect democracy in EU-Canada trade ruling

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    14th February 2019

    EU Parliament-approved investment agreement may be illegal

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    5th November 2018

    Local community voices to be heard in illegal Romanian gold mine litigation

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    27th September 2018

    Lawyers sue EU Commission for information on legality of trade deal tribunals

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    9th July 2018

    EU-Indonesia trade deal risks accelerating deforestation

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    19th April 2018

    Report: Landmark ruling suggests investor-state dispute settlement illegal in all EU-investment deals

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    15th March 2018

    UK must outlaw future trade deals with secret courts, which will risk ‘Green Brexit’

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    6th March 2018

    New ECJ ruling could spell the end of 200 intra-EU investment agreements
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