
Legal hurdles facing a green and just transition
The irony of genuinely ‘free trade’ is only regulation enables it. Europe cannot lead the ecological transition without recognising this.
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Ingo Venzke is professor of international law and social justice at the University of Amsterdam and director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law.

The irony of genuinely ‘free trade’ is only regulation enables it. Europe cannot lead the ecological transition without recognising this.

The centenary of the Treaty of Versailles should remind us how closely it connected the fragile promise of peace to the quest for social justice.