The EU’s weak promotional policy towards sustainability in its free trade arguments isup for revision. Labour and environmental standards need to be tightened. They weregiven a boost on balance by a remarkable panel ruling of January 2021 in the longstandingEU–Korea labour dispute....

As an element of its "value-based trade policy" the European Union has institutionalised civil society participation in the context of its "New Generation Free Trade Agreements" less than ten years ago. In all recent trade agreements with partner countries, the EU includes a chapter on Trade and...

In this paper, we review the sustainable development content of regional trade agreements (RTAs) globally using a new ESCAP RTA Text Analysis tool, followed by a comparative analysis of sustainable development related provisions in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and two...