Some critical issues in the EU-India free trade agreement negotiations

• Autores: Jan Wouters, Idesbald Goddeeris, Bregt Natens, Filip Ciortuz
• Localización: European Law Journal, ISSN-e 1468-0386, Vol. 20, Nº. 6, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: EU Free Trade Agreements and Fundamental Rights Protecting Commercial Interests or Exerting Normative Power), págs. 848-869
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1111/eulj.12109
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  • The free trade agreement currently negotiated between the EU and India is due to be the first of a new generation of free trade agreements between the EU and an emerging economy. This article addresses a number of critical issues in the negotiations and the EU's response to them. These issues include European labour standards and General Agreement on Trade in Services Mode 4 liberalisation; Indian generic medicine production and EU interests in patent protection; EU agricultural subsidies and their impact on the Indian dairy sector; the human rights and democracy dimension of the EU's foreign policy; and transparency issues of the negotiation process.