On Wednesday 23 March the Director General of the European Commission’s DG Trade, Sabine Weyand, held discussions with MEPs on the upcoming review of the 15-point action plan on Sustainable Development Chapters (SDC) in trade agreements.
Many MEPs (Renew Europe, S&D, Greens/EFA, The Left) expect to see SDC chapters accompanied by sanctions for non-compliance. Sabine Weyand noted, as her deputy director had done a few months earlier (see EUROPE B12876A12), that dialogue and cooperation...