The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a multilateral treaty for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement that did not enter into force. The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting counterfeit goods, generic medicines and copyright infringement on the Internet, and would create a new governing body outside existing forums, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the United Nations.
Stakeholders' consultation meeting on 21 April 2009 at the Charlemagne building in Brussels
Protests in Poland, January 2012
Protests in Denmark, February 2012
Poster used by the German Pirate Party
Donald Franciszek Tusk is a Polish politician and historian who has served as the prime minister of Poland since 2023, having previously held the post from 2007 to 2014. From 2014 to 2019 Tusk served as President of the European Council, and from 2019 to 2022 he was the president of the European People's Party (EPP). He co-founded the Civic Platform (PO) party in 2001 and has served as its long-time leader, first from 2003 to 2014 and again since 2021.
Donald Tusk (right) being appointed Prime Minister by President Lech Kaczyński, 9 November 2007
Prime Minister Tusk with Barack Obama, 2014
Prime Minister Tusk with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Tusk at the European People's Party Congress in Helsinki, Finland, on 8 November 2018