German NGOs Campact, Foodwatch and Mehr Demokratie submitted a complaint to the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on Tuesday 30 August against the EU-Canada free-trade agreement, CETA. The CETA is due to be signed this autumn and will require ratification by the European Parliament and EU national parliaments.
The interim order of the complaint, signed by 125,047 citizens, seeks to prevent the provisional application of the CETA (that is, implementation of the treaty after approval...