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    • Trade and sustainable development – a chance for innovative thinking

    Due to the controversy surrounding trade in recent years (for example, TTIP and CETA), the European Commission has started to recognise that there needs to be stronger coherence between trade and development policies. This paper looks at how the Trade and Sustainable Development chapters could play a crucial role in this.

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    This paper looks at how the Trade and Sustainable Development chapters could play a crucial role in this. Currently they have little impact, mainly because they do not contain any measures for redress. As things stand, there are no consequences if a third country does not comply with the TSD chapter of a trade deal concluded with the EU.