"Contrairement aux promesses de l’Union européenne faisant de l’APE un instrument pour renforcer l’intégration régionale en Afrique, c’est bien le contraire qui s’est produit," dénoncent les organisations de la société civile réunies à Dakar

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Thai advocacy group FTA Watch yesterday issued a statement condemning attempts to end legislative scrutiny of negotiations concerning international trade agreements.

In a surprise move this week, the European Union has moved to suspend negotiations for a new economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the islands of the Pacific, ISLANDS BUSINESS has been told.

Responding to reports today that Canada and the European Union have concluded negotiations on a massive new corporate rights treaty called the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Council of Canadians is demanding that parliament and the public be given an opportunity to review and make changes to the deal, or even to reject it outright, before it can be signed.

The group which emerged as the “Patriotic Committee” nearly six years ago as Costa Rica held a national referendum which ultimately ended with the signing of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with the United States, continues its struggle against the agreement, known locally as TLC.

About 100 people railed in Kuala Lumpur against the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) as US Secretary of State John Kerry rubbed shoulders with Malaysian government officials at an entrepreneurial summit in the capital city.

Thanks to the unexpected government shutdown in the US, this week’s Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks have been postponed. Nevertheless, the EU Trade Commissioner Karl De Gucht said that this “in no way distracts from our overall aim of acheiving an ambitious trade and investment deal”, though the duration of the US government shutdown remains unclear.

The Asia Pacific Research Network calls on participating governments to drop the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement altogether after they failed to sign an agreement at the sidelines of the APEC talks in Bali, Indonesia.

Over 100 farmers from Assembly of the Poor gathered in front of Thai Government House in Bangkok late September in a campaign action to scrutinize the implications for farmers’ seeds of the second round of Thai-EU FTA negotiations going on in Chiangmai

The Indonesian civil society movement coalition, Gerak Lawan, held a protest on 7 October 2013 in front of the Ministry of Finance as a symbol of the struggle against the liberalization agenda in Indonesia.

As the second round of negotiations on the proposed EU-US trade agreement kick off in Brussels next week, a new report published by the Seattle to Brussels Network today reveals the true human and environmental costs of an EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Les négociations entre l’UE et les pays ACP pour des Accords de Partenariat. Economique, au lieu de contribuer au développement durable des pays ACP, vont saper les bases d’une véritable intégration économique de l’Afrique et aller au-delà de ce que requiert l’OMC, déclare le Forum Social Sénégalais