Brussels, 26/01/2012 (Agence Europe) - Green and Social Democrat MEPs are calling for obstacles to be put in the way of the ACTA agreement (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) after it was signed by 22 EU member states.
Despite the fact that in the EU many MEPs, associations and NGOs had rallied in protest to signature of the agreement, 22 EU member states signed the ACTA agreement on Thursday 26 January.
Negotiated outside the WTO and behind closed doors between 2007 and 2010, the...