The European project, as idealistic as it was, was always a top down endeavor. But it is another matter altogether to encourage technocrats to run countries, seemingly circumventing democratic processes, and foist upon them policies that lead to widespread public misery.

America s intellectual property regime and the regime that the US has helped to foist upon the rest of the world through the TRIPS agreement is unbalanced. We should all hope that, with its decision in the Myriad case, the Supreme Court will contribute to the creation of a more sensible and humane framework.

America s intellectual property regime and the regime that the US has helped to foist upon the rest of the world through the TRIPS agreement is unbalanced. We should all hope that, with its decision in the Myriad case, the Supreme Court will contribute to the creation of a more sensible and humane framework.

Given that the US has abandoned any pretense of leadership on world trade, it is up to major emerging economies and like minded developed countries to establish their own template, one that adheres to trade objectives and discards what special interest lobbies in hegemons like the US seek to foist on PTAs. This is exactly what India has done with the EU, which is now stripping such features out of its proposed PTA.