LUXEMBOURG: Europe’s top court ruled Tuesday that a complaints resolution mechanism in the EU-Canada trade deal is legal, a blow to campaigners who ar...
: Europe’s top court ruled Tuesday that a complaints resolution mechanism in the EU-Canada trade deal is legal, a blow to campaigners who argue it gives too much power to corporations.
But some environmentalists, social activists and free trade-sceptics argue it does not give citizens a balancing right to take legal action if corporations break the rules. On Tuesday, the court ruled “there is no effect of the autonomy of the EU legal order” which protects “the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law, and respect for human rights.”
But trade campaigners such as Paul de Clerck, of pressure group Friends of the Earth Europe, were dismayed. “Legal is not the same as fair,“ he said.
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