Given the worsening human rights situation in the Philippines, doubts are beginning to surface on the European side about granting the country EU trade preferences under the GSP+ regime, as well as about continuing negotiations for a free trade agreement (launched in early 2016). The deterioration in the country's human rights situation follows Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte's violent war on drugs trafficking since his election in June 2016.
On the sidelines of a meeting in Manila...