10/01/24 (Agence Europe) – On Wednesday 10 January, three German organisations - Mehr Demokratie, Foodwatch and Campact - announced that they had lodged a constitutional appeal against the free trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA). The NGOs explain that their appeal targets the agreement as validated by the German authorities, in particular “the committee system and the arbitration tribunals”. In their view, “arbitration tribunals lack democratic legitimacy and have...