Lisa Peets

  • Feature

    A transatlantic trade pact could reshape market rules

    01 July 2013

    A transatlantic free trade agreement between the US and the EU, long dreamed of in some policy circles, is suddenly close to becoming a reality. In February, a high-level transatlantic working group published a recommendation that negotiations over the envisaged Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) should start. The European ...

  • News

    Data protection

    2012-03-01T00:00:00

    On 25 January, the European Commission presented a proposal to reform the EU’s data protection regime. The proposal consists of a ­regulation governing private sector use of data that would replace the current Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC), and a new ­directive that would further regulate the processing of personal ...