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A FRENCH MEP has quit the process of scrutinising the controversial anti-counterfeiting agreement known as ACTA in the European Parliament and called the passage of the agreement ‘a charade’.
Socialist MEP Kader Arif has slammed the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by European Union member states – including Ireland and the EU itself – in Tokyo this week saying the entire process of the treaty was “a charade” in which he would no longer participate.
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