New Europe reported on 27 March that a proposal to send Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) - the controversial trade agreement that has caused quite the stir around Europe - to the European Court of Justice was rejected by the International Trade Committee in the European Parliament with 21 members of Parliament against the proposal, five in favour and two abstentions.

The only political group that voted in favour of referring the text to the European Court of Justice (ECJ ) was ...