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Axos Capital files €400m Kosovo lawsuit
7-Jan-2017 Global Telecoms Business
ACP Axos Capital is suing the Kosovo government for €400m as a result of its failed bid to buy Kosovo Telecom.
German utilities win compensation for nuclear phaseout
8-Dec-2016 DW
Germany’s highest court has ruled in favor of three power companies in a dispute over a government decision to phase out nuclear energy. Vattenfall is also suing at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
German Court on CETA: Important success for our democratic rights!
13-Oct-2016 Stop TTIP
The Germany’s Constitutional Court’s decision on CETA is an important success in the fight against the EU’s free trade machinery
German court rejects emergency appeal to block EU-Canada trade deal
13-Oct-2016 Thomson Reuters
Germany’s Constitutional Court gave the green light for the government to approve an ambitious trade accord between the European Union and Canada under certain conditions.
Germany’s top court hears challenge to EU-Canada trade deal
12-Oct-2016 Reuters
Germany’s Constitutional Court began hearing a legal challenge to a planned EU-Canada free trade deal that could paralyze the accord.
Hundreds of thousands march in Germany against TTIP, CETA
19-Sep-2016 Common Dreams
These agreements, says critics, ’threaten environmental and consumer protection for millions of people in Europe and North America’
German leaders told to put brakes on CETA as well
1-Sep-2016 EurActiv
Dismantling democracy, millions spent in lawsuits and jobs in peril. A study into the effects of the planned CETA and TTIP agreements on the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia has revealed a grim picture.
German activists take EU-Canada trade deal to Constitutional Court
1-Sep-2016 Reuters
Activists delivered what they said was Germany’s biggest-ever public complaint to the Constitutional Court, hoping it will scupper a trade agreement between the European Union and Canada.
TTIP has failed – but no one is admitting it, says German Vice-Chancellor
29-Aug-2016 The Independent
Germany’s Vice-Chancellor said in 14 rounds of talks neither side had agreed on a single common chapter out of the 27 being deliberated.
Growing protest against TTIP and CETA trade agreements in Germany
24-Aug-2016 Deutsche Welle
Hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets in several German cities to rally against plans to move forward with two key international trade agreements - one year after a similar protest managed to attract similar numbers.
At least 35,000 protest in Hanover a day before Obama visits Germany to promote TTIP trade deal
25-Apr-2016 Business Insider
Some 35,000 people marched through the streets of Hanover to protest against a sweeping European-US trade deal.
Survey: German companies call for changes to free trade agreement
11-Mar-2016 MORE
Ohoven: “TTIP must not be allowed to benefit big business only”
German SMEs join forces to resist TTIP
24-Feb-2016 DW
TTIP aims to spur growth and create jobs on both sides of the Atlantic, but there are doubts among some small and midsized businesses in Germany.
La gestion des ressources en eau dans le sillage du libre-échange - CETA
18-Feb-2016 European Water Movement
Exposé de la position de l’AöW, au sujet de l’accord de libre-échange de l’UE avec le Canada – CETA.
What I didn’t read in the TTIP reading room
8-Feb-2016 War on Want
Katja Kipping was one of the first German MPs to gain access to the new TTIP reading room opened in Berlin, and she has written up a report of her experience.
TTIP transparency ’farce’ as Germany opens MP reading room
1-Feb-2016 War on Want
German MPs will be granted restricted access to documents from secret EU-US trade negotiations. Access to the documents will only be possible under supervision.
Small businesses start to campaign against TTIP
19-Nov-2015 Three World
Many small businesses are not convinced by the benefits of TTIP. Some of them have started to campaign, which for time-pressed small businesses, is quite a big thing.
German government hits back after TTIP demo
14-Oct-2015 EurActiv
Despite the massive anti-TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) protest in Berlin, the German government and industry still want to press on with the negotiations
Berlin anti-TTIP trade deal protest attracts hundreds of thousands
12-Oct-2015 The Guardian
Environmental groups, charities and opposition parties who organised protest against free trade deal between the EU and US say 250,000 people took part
German Bundestag not happy about being kept out of ttip reading room in Berlin
10-Sep-2015 Intellectual Property Watch
The parliamentary representatives expressed concerns about limitations with regard to the current mechanisms to allow for access for members of national parliaments.