Tánaiste to seek Cabinet approval for CETA legislation: Tánaiste Simon Harris will seek Cabinet approval tomorrow for the drafting of legislation which will allow for the ratification of the controversial EU-Canada trade deal.
👉 TDM Law Journal Special Issue on the Comprehensive Economic and #Trade Agreement between the #EuropeanUnion and #Canada #CETA - free excerpt
https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/journal-browse-issues-toc.asp?key=65
incl. free to read Prefaces by Prof. P.J. Kuijper, Yves Fortier, PC, CC, OQ, QC,… https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/0526/1514897-ireland-politics/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

France floats resurrecting doomed EU-US trade deal it used to oppose: 👉 TDM Law Journal Special Issue on the Comprehensive Economic and #Trade Agreement between the #EuropeanUnion and #Canada #CETA - free excerpt
https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/journal-browse-issues-toc.asp?key=65
incl. free to read Prefaces by Prof. P.J. Kuijper, Yves Fortier, PC, CC, OQ, QC, Judge S.M. Schwebel https://www.politico.eu/article/france-united-states-trade-deal-resurrect-eric-lombard/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#NSC zet met steun voor #mercosur onze voedselveiligheid, milieu, consumentenrechten en democratie op het spel.
#Niksgeleerd #Ceta #Ttip #voorzorgbeginsel
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/economie/10572499/nsc-kiest-voor-vlucht-naar-voren-mercosur-is-niet-perfect-maar-opent-enorme-markt

Germany's Merz hoping for trans-Atlantic free trade agreement: He said it was a mistake not to get the major free trade agreement known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) over the finish line. "And yes, I hope for a new trans-Atlantic free trade agreement. Zero percent tariffs on everything. That would be better for both sides," he told Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper.
👉 TDM #CPTPP https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/journal-browse-issues-toc.asp?key=87
👉 TDM #CETA https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/journal-browse-issues-toc.asp?key=65 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/germanys-merz-hoping-trans-atlantic-164125318.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Wir sind bereits 2016 an sehr unschönen Vorstößen gerade so vorbeigeschrammt und #Merz findet das im Nachhinein falsch[1].

#TTIP & #CETA wurden aus guten Gründen nicht ratifiziert! [2] [3]

[1] https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/merz-hofft-auf-transatlantisches-freihandelsabkommen-zr-93680958.html

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/ttip-demonstration-in-berlin-stellt-teilnehmerrekord-auf-a-1057187.html

[3] https://www.bund.net/themen/aktuelles/detail-aktuelles/news/320000-demonstrierende-aus-sieben-staedten-fordern-ceta-und-ttip-stoppen/

#depol #paralleljustiz #demokratieverteidigen #notrump #noafd

Does Canada’s future lie with Europe?
#Canada #Trump #EUCanadaRelations #GlobalTrade #CETA #Geopolitics #FutureOfCanada #NATO #Democracy #EU #USA #EuropeAlliance #InternationalRelations #RuleOfLaw #DiversifyCanada #GreenTech #GlobalStability
https://the-14.com/does-canadas-future-lie-with-europe/

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(6/6)

... continues to play a key role in that. Therefore, all #Technofeudalist and authoritarian media, Social or not, and in particular #US based, should be...

placed under observation, banned if need be.
All powers and levels if government of the remain ng democratic nations must join the #Fediverse. Society must once again 👉own its social media platform 2)👈

2)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114184767266576206

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(5/n)

... conventional weapons.

As in the 1930's, a #fascist movement has been siwing division where there should be unity.

We must never forget, as in any war, the war that's being fought against #Authoritarianism is a #hybrid one.

The #FourthEstate...

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(4/n)

.. taking a wrecking ball towards the #West.

If the rest of the 🌍 globe, in particular #CEUM, work much stronger together, there is a good chance that the #TrumpeanTariffs'-induced #GlobalDepression2.0 might yet be averted.

However, this is not only a war of trade and...

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(3/n)

... They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.👈"

The #TrumpTariffs that will result in #TrumpeanTradeWars, if this collision course is maintained, are the complete opposite of what the founding fathers had in mind.
#tRump is...

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(2/n)

... way before the much cited Art. 5.:

"Article 2

The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, 👉and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being...

@kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(2/2)

... area while adding the dimension that alwas had been missing, a #DefenseUnion, from the ashes of #NATO.

As #JustinTrudeau said, the 👉... Dumbest Trade War in History👈.

The intentional(?) destruction of the #US superpower by the #MAGAmerican Regime might yet proof a boon for a European renaissance and a more multipolar word than the autocrats Trump, Putin, Xi hoped 4
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114117427200013920

//

@kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(1/2)

And #SigmarGabriel is right!

#Canada and #Mexico, while having a lot of indigenous roots, AS well as Asian and African, the majority of people have ancestral roots on the European continent and speak one of its languages.

But things should not be hastened, the #EuropeanUnion did not start as such.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114237101442358153

IMO, starting with a fast-track implementation of a free-trade area...

#dontbuyamerican the world will trade without America. Be it so. Can’t wait for #trump going full panic mode. #EU should get #ceta and #Mercosur agreements ratified. That’s the answer we need to give! https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/donald-trump-seine-zoelle-sind-eine-kampfansage-an-die-welt-a-91a8363d-1b4c-40d5-9be1-398badcd0bd0?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(8/8)

... in the interests of the state? The answer is primarily that 👉it wanted to … strengthen the state authority itself;👈 it concentrated on the power of the state … Primarily to the state’s external power, in relation to other states."

primary source:
https://fee.org/articles/mercantilism-was-monarchys-planned-economy/

//

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(7/n)

... of 👉economic policy [as a conception of society in which all interests were to be made obedient to the monarch captured in the famous phrase of the #French #king, Louis XIV – ‘I am the State’]👈."

"#Mercantilism as a System of Power

What was the object of mercantilism in using economic forces...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(6/n)

... historian #EliHeckscher)

Why #Trump espouses it, could easily be explained by the central element of this policy introduced in the late absolutist reign of the #SunKing, #LouisXIV:

"#Mercantilism as a Conception of Society

Mercantilism revealed a fairly uniform conception of general social phenomena in the field of economics, and this, too, reacted in many ways on the...