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Peru seeks to close free trade agreement with EU by Jan. 2010
19-Dec-2009 LIP
"I think negotiations with the European Union will be completed by the end of January 2010," pointed out the Peruvian trade minister, who added that only two or three issues are still yet to solve by both part’s ministers.
Colombia’s dubious strategy to push through an FTA with the European Union
14-Dec-2009 ITUC
The ITUC is appalled at the strategy used by the Colombian government to discredit the ITUC Colombian affiliates – CUT, CGT and CTC – and the National Trade Union School by sending incendiary information from a completely unrepresentative trade union to European Union Members of Parliament.
Trade unionists ask EU not to sign FTA with Colombia
10-Dec-2009 Colombia Reports
Colombian trade unionists on Wednesday asked the EU not to sign an FTA with Colombia due to the human rights violations they believe to have been committed by the Uribe government.
Human rights issues could thwart Colombia-EU FTA: France
9-Nov-2009
Human rights issues could thwart commercial agreements between Colombia and the EU, said the deputy leader of the French National Assembly on Monday.
Close attention to final round of Peru-EU FTA required
2-Oct-2009 La Primera
The Peruvian Network for a Just Globalization says that both public opinion, as well as members of Congress, have to make sure that no conditions that restrict access to medicines for thousands of Peruvians are included in the text of the EU-Peru trade agreement.
Correa says EU must cut banana levy for trade talks to progress
19-Jul-2009 Bloomberg
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said his country won’t keep negotiating a commercial agreement with the European Union until the trade bloc complies with World Trade orders to cut duties on Ecuadorean bananas.
The throes of the third round of negotiations of the FTA of Colombia & Peru with the EU
8-Jul-2009 Anarkismo.net
Analysis of the third round of egotiations of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and the Andean countries (Ecuador, Peru and Colombia).
IV Round of Colombia-EU FTA negotiations extended
19-Jun-2009 Semana
The IV negotiating round between Colombia, Perú, Ecuador and the EU will conclude today, Friday. Important topics include bananas, sugar and intellectual property, which have faced some obstacles during the discussion.
Correa backpedals from EU trade agreement
5-Jun-2009 LatinAmerican Press
President says agreement threatens social advances
EU-Andean talks inch forward, but Ecuador threatens to pull out
27-May-2009 ICTSD
Negotiations toward a trade-opening deal between the EU and a group of Andean countries hit another snag this week when Ecuador’s president publicly denounced the talks, calling them ‘biased’.
Ecuador president nixes EU free trade deal
25-May-2009 Euronews 24
Ecuador will not sign a free trade deal with the European Union, President Rafael Correa said, criticizing the tenor of talks between the two. The European Union can give whatever pretty name it wants, but we are headed toward a free trade agreement, and we will not accept that, Correa said on Saturday.
What is Harper getting Canada into by negotiating a deeper ’economic partnership agreement’ with the European Union?
14-May-2009 Vue Weekly
The current Canada-European Union free trade negotiations could fundamentally change the way the Canadian economy works and our local communities govern themselves more than any previous trade agreement, including NAFTA.
EU’s intellectual property agenda could impair access to medicines in the Andean region
6-May-2009
The EU is more aggressive in its approach to intellectual property in trade agreements than the United States, MEPs learn
Human rights no block to EU-Colombia talks
6-May-2009 EU Observer
As the European Union this week launches another round of negotiations with Colombia on a free trade agreement, trade unionists who live daily under the gun of right-wing paramilitaries linked to the government have in Brussels in the last week pleaded with the EU executive to suspend the talks.
EU urged not to sign FTA with Colombia
1-May-2009 Columbia Reports
Colombian, American, and European union workers pressed the European Parliament not to sign a free trade agreement with Colombia if human rights don’t improve here.
Peru refuses price raise on medicines at FTA negotiation with EU
27-Mar-2009 Xinhua
The Peruvian Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry said Thursday that Peru will not accept raise in medicine prices in the second round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union..
Andean countries, EU to continue FTA dialogue
21-Mar-2009 Xinhua
Peruvian, Colombian and Ecuadorian officials will hold meetings with the European Union next week for a Free Trade Agreement. The discussion on intellectual property is seen as one of the most sensitive in the negotiations, because the Europeans have demanded an extension of the terms for the copyrights and data protection.
EU takes "realist" tone with Colombia
2-Mar-2009 Washington Post
While some in the EU have voiced concern about Colombia’s human rights failures, Europe’s top politicians do not seem interested in linking this problem to the FTA.
EU, Andean Nations struggle forward in trade talks
20-Feb-2009 ICTSD
Intellectual property, a potential regional customs union, human rights, and bananas triggered heated debate last week in Bogota during the first round of negotiations toward a free trade agreement between the European Union and Andean nations Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Colombia-European Union FTA on track
18-Feb-2009 Semana
The FTA will not be negotiated taking the three Latin American countries as a block. The new format designed for the negotiations is an unique multi party agreement in which each country’s particular interests will be taken into consideration regarding specific products, but all framed within the same agreement.