Negotiations
NFU opposes trade promotion authority
4-Mar-2015Drovers CattleNetwork National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson urged members of US Congress to oppose trade promotion authority – also known as fast track – noting that trade agreements should be fair to all parties involved, and the process should be transparent.
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4-Mar-2015 Australia Broadcasting Corporation
Where are the TPP negotiations up to?
Discussion with Susan Sell, Matthew Rimmer and Jane Kelsey
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3-Mar-2015 No al TTIP
Marina Albiol: "El TTIP impide que haya políticas de izquierda"
La eurodiputada de IU advierte del poder que adquirirán las multinacionales si llega a firmarse el Tratado Transatlántico de Comercio e Inversiones que negocian Estados Unidos y Europa. -
3-Mar-2015 Radio Mundo Real
Reconocen responsabilidad del Estado colombiano en el asesinato de joven estudiante en protestas contra el TLC con EE.UU.
Diálogo con el padre de una de las víctimas mortales del Estado colombiano, en este caso Jhonny Silva, ultimado por la Policía Antidisturbios en 2005 en el marco de una movilización pacífica contra el Tratado de Libre Comercio. -
3-Mar-2015 Panamá América
Panamá tiene el peor agro de Latinoamérica y Caribe
Con la caída del agro en casi un 50% en 2014 y una disminución en la generación de sus divisas en este sector, Panamá es considerado como el país con la peor agricultura que pueda tener toda América Latina y el Caribe. -
3-Mar-2015 European Commission
EU-Japan 9th round of trade talks further consolidates negotiation texts
The 9th round of EU-Japan FTA talks took place from 23-27 February in Brussels. The meetings focused on further consolidation of the negotiating texts. -
3-Mar-2015 East Africa Business Week
East Africa: Trade bloc merger talks end with May date
The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) covering 26 countries will be launched in May, it has been agreed. -
3-Mar-2015 African News Agency
On a free trade mission in Africa
Treasure Maphanga is one of Africa’s most important women, with arguably the continent’s toughest job on her hands: driving the establishment and implementation of a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA). -
2-Mar-2015 GRAIN
Libre comercio y la epidemia de comida chatarra en México
Hace varios años que las compañías transnacionales de alimentos entendieron que los mercados primordiales para su crecimiento están en el Sur global. Los acuerdos de libre comercio e inversión son un factor crucial en este proceso de acaparamiento, sustitución y mayores ganancias. El caso de México nos arroja un retrato crudo y oscuro de las consecuencias que esto entraña. -
2-Mar-2015 UITA
El Salvador: Urge ratificar derecho humano a la alimentación y al agua
En víspera de las elecciones municipales y legislativas del 1 de marzo, diferentes organizaciones sociales se han movilizado para exigir al Parlamento la ratificación del derecho humano a la alimentación y al agua, así como la aprobación de una ley que promueva la soberanía alimentaria en El Salvador. -
2-Mar-2015 Xinhua
Service trade with China set to be new impetus for EU recovery: expert
Brussels and Beijing should speed up negotiation of a Sino-EU Bilateral Investment Treaty and strive to sign it within this year, a Chinese think-tank arguesmore
Key issues
Is ICSID heading in the wrong direction?
3-Mar-2015 Global Arbitration ReviewAs ICSID celebrates the 50th anniversary of its creation this week, a former acting secretary general of the centre, Nassib Ziadé, says it’s time to talk about some of its problems – including flawed appointment processes and a lack of guidance on arbitrator challenges.
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27-Feb-2015 Rebelion
Saldos de la migración transfronteriza de campesinos mexicanos a Estados Unidos
Este texto hace un balance de la migración de campesinos mexicanos a Estados Unidos en las últimas tres décadas, y muestra como, entre otras causas, la falta de derechos y servicios de un estado que no garantiza los niveles de desarrollo indispensables ha sido un motor para los procesos de movilidad. -
27-Feb-2015 La Croix
Guerre de la cigarette entre Philip Morris et l’Uruguay
Alors que l’Organisation mondiale de la santé célèbre vendredi 27 février les dix ans de la Convention-cadre pour la lutte antitabac, l’Uruguay, pionnier dans ce combat, fait l’objet d’une plainte déposée il y a cinq ans par le cigarettier Philip Morris. -
25-Feb-2015 Financial Express
Will a new US-led IP empire in India put access to medicines at risk?
Prof Brook K Baker, Professor of Law and Northeastern University, cautions that the Modi government’s accelerating flirtation with the US and its investors is dangerous to hundreds of millions of people worldwide whose lives depend on Indian generics -
25-Feb-2015 Le Monde
La gauche européenne unie pour réformer les tribunaux d’arbitrage internationaux
A défaut de l’écarter complètement des négociations du Tafta/TTIP (et de son petit cousin, l’accord CETA entre l’Europe et le Canada), comme le réclame une bonne partie de la société civile, la gauche européenne souhaite réformer en profondeur ce mécanisme d’arbitrage pour limiter ses dérives. -
24-Feb-2015 OCMAL
Los TLC, las inversiones y la expansión minera en América Latina
¿Sabías que los Tratados de Libre Comercio (TLC) son mucho más que acuerdos que promueven el intercambio de bienes y servicios? -
23-Feb-2015 The Telegraph
How Jack Straw lobbied Ukrainian PM and European Commission on behalf of sugar firm
According to The Telegraph, former UK foreign secretary Jack Straw lobbied the Ukrainian goverment - using the proposed EU FTA as a carrot - to get it to change a domestic law in favour of a UK company’s interests.more
Relaunch of bilaterals.org
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News from the movements
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3-Mar-2015 No al TTIP
Las/os europarlamentarias/os deben proteger a la ciudadanía ante la amenaza del tratado comercial entre UE-EEUU
El Parlamento Europeo está preparando un informe con su posicionamiento sobre las controvertidas negociaciones de la Asociación Transatlántica de Comercio e Inversión (TTIP, por sus siglas en inglés). -
3-Mar-2015 NZ Not For Sale
Tell our Govt NO to the TPPA on March 7
The best chance to stop the TPPA is before ministers make their decisions. Join the nationwide day of action on 7 Mar 2015 in Aotearoa/NewZealand -
27-Feb-2015 RLS
UPDATE: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): A charter for deregulation, an attack on jobs, an end to democracy
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung have today released an updated version of their publication on TTIP by John Hilary. -
26-Feb-2015 El Faradio
Izquierda Unida también se moviliza contra el TTIP
Desde Izquierda Unida este viernes se ha organizado un acto público en el Colegio Público Cisneros sobre el Tratado de Libre Comercio e Inversiones entre EEUU y la Unión Europea (TTIP). -
26-Feb-2015 IGJ
Update on Indonesia BITs review
Indonesia for Global Justice together with Indonesian civil society networks met with the Director of Bilateral Cooperation of Investment Coordinating Board, Fritz Horas Silalahi, in Jakarta to discuss the review of Indonesia Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITS). -
25-Feb-2015 Financial Express
Will a new US-led IP empire in India put access to medicines at risk?
Prof Brook K Baker, Professor of Law and Northeastern University, cautions that the Modi government’s accelerating flirtation with the US and its investors is dangerous to hundreds of millions of people worldwide whose lives depend on Indian generics -
23-Feb-2015 Planète Non Violence
Les Américains veulent imposer TAFTA avec interdiction de BDS
Une loi bipartisane est en préparation au Congrés US pour conditionner l’Accord de Libre Echange Transatlantique (TAFTA) à l’interdiction par les pays membres de l’UE de toute campagne BDS (Boycott Desinvestissement Sanctions contre Israël). -
20-Feb-2015 Electronic Intifada
How EU-US trade deal could thwart “boycott Israel” campaign
Two members of the US Congress have introduced a bill that would turn a giant trade deal between the EU and US into a devastating weapon against the people of Palestine and all those seeking justice alongside them.
Links
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23-Feb-2015
MORE for SMEs than TTIP
MORE, the Movement for Responsibility in Trade Agreements, is an association of European SMEs and citizens created to ensure that trade agreements such as TTIP serve business and society equitably, and to protect SMEs in Europe and the USA. -
9-Jan-2015
EFILA
The European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA) has been established in Brussels to promote the knowledge of all aspects of EU and international investment law, including arbitration, at the European level -
7-Jan-2015
EU negotiating texts in TTIP
New web page from the European Commission containing fact sheets and proposed legal text for TTIP -
29-Dec-2014
No Association with Occupation!
Take action to suspend the EU-Israel free trade agreement!
Texts of agreements
26-Feb-2015
| EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft services & investment offer (Feb 2015)
as leaked to the BBC on 2
20-Feb-2015
| EU-Ecuador FTA (2014): annotations and commitments
5-Feb-2015
| EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft dispute settlement chapter (EU proposal, Feb 2014)
As leaked by Greens MEP Michel Reimon
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