A total of 60 civil society organisations from Indonesia and Europe have signed a joint statement laying out serious concerns with the EU-Indonesia trade agreement. These behind-closed-doors trade negotiations - like CETA and TTIP - jeopardise an equitable and just future.
The United States' new hostility to free trade deals under President Donald Trump is benefiting the European Union, the bloc's top trade official said.
With Donald Trump in office for about a month now, German companies try to look at the bright side. An interview with Daniel Andrich, Representative of German Industry and Trade in Washington.
The EU is right to pursue a free trade agreement with Japan which should form part of a wider "pivot to Asia" policy that would open up more markets in Southeast Asia, Patrick Messerlin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Sciences Po Paris and Chairman of European Centre for International Political Economy's Steering Committee, told Radio Sputnik.