The EU trade and Investment Agenda: quashing the aspirations of the Arab Spring?

Roeline Knottnerus, “The EU trade and Investment Agenda“, Transnational Institute, 26 March 2013

The EU’s launch of negotiations for Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements (DCFTAs) with four Arab countries in transition – Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia – looks set to entrench an economic model that was one of the root causes of the Arab Spring.
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