On the sidelines of the round of talks for an EU-Indonesia free trade agreement in Brussels this week, the NGO Friends of the Earth Europe published a report on Tuesday 10 July, criticising the gulf that exists between the negotiated agreement and the objectives of the EU's trade policy on sustainability.
Criticising their lack of transparency, Friends of the Earth speaks out against the shortfalls in the ongoing negotiations, which, it says, aim "to put profits before people" and"to...