内容摘要：Under the NPP, drivers can use any of the main parking apps in any car park which is signed up to the scheme.

Under the NPP, drivers can use any of the main parking apps in any car park which is signed up to the scheme.

Every year the ITUC publishes a survey of the atrocities carried out against trade unionists around the world. Its most recent edition covers the year to the end of March 2024.It found that in those 12 months, 22 trade unionists were killed for their activism around the world. Eleven of them

"Generally, these are targeted murders," Mr Triangle says. "They know what they are doing. They know who they want to murder."It's not targeting the big bosses of the trade unions or the leaders. They are targeting in small villages people that are doing active trade union work."Between 2020 and 2023, we recorded 45 murders in Colombia. In 2022, 29 murders. It's less violent than it once was, but it's still very violent, certainly if you compare it with other countries."

Why is this happening?Fabio Arias, the head of Colombia's largest trade union federation, the CUT, says it is all part of Colombia's long and complex civil conflict, which pitted left-wing rebel groups against right-wing paramilitaries, drug traffickers and the Colombian state, and which still rumbles on in some parts of the country.

"The trade union movement has always been linked to the parties of the left and unfortunately the many right-wing governments we've had in Colombia have always claimed that anyone who is a leftist is a guerrilla, a terrorist," Mr Arias says.

"And once you've established that, then people feel justified in attacking them."The WTO said it expected global merchandise trade to decline by 0.2% in 2025 as a result, having previously projected it would grow by 2.7 per cent this year.

The trade court ruling - if it holds - might help global trade perform somewhat better than this.But the dampening impact of uncertainty regarding whether US tariffs will materialise or not remains.

The bottom line is that many economists think trade will still be very badly affected this year."Trump's trade war is not over – not by a long shot," is the verdict of Grace Fan of the consultancy TS Lombard.