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The gathering financial storm is just one effect of corporate power unbound
5-Nov-2015 The Guardian
What have governments learned from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out. Or I could do the same job with one word: nothing.
TISA parties plan four rounds by July 2016 to advance priority annexes
4-Nov-2015 World Trade Online
The participants in the Trade In Services Agreements (TISA) have agreed to hold four more rounds of negotiations between November and mid-July 2016
Japan releases TPP details – Vietnam to abolish tariffs and economic needs test
3-Nov-2015 Lexology
Besides abolishing tariffs and providing for investor-state dispute settlement, some of Vietnam’s highlights under the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact include removing the dreaded economic needs test
Joseph Stiglitz: under TPP, polluters could sue U.S. for setting carbon emissions limits
30-Oct-2015 Democracy Now
The basic point is that TPP is a trade agreement that has all kinds of provisions intended to restrict regulations.
The TTIP of the spear
29-Oct-2015 The Economist
Selling Europe’s trade agreement with America as “strategic” has problems
In brief – TTIP: where we stand
26-Oct-2015 Bordelex
TTIP negotiation round 11 was held in Miami, Florida: short overview of where we stand in the negotiations, issue area by issue area.
The Volkswagen scandal and TTIP
15-Oct-2015 Euranet Plus
The Volkswagen scandal has, above all, shown to the general public what had long been clear to people in Europe who are campaigning for better air quality: the car industry has too much influence on politics in Europe.
‘Political will’ may no longer be the bane of AEC
14-Oct-2015 The Establishment Post
With less than three months before AEC is launched, the business community is still not convinced that the governments in Asean are politically committed towards AEC. Many feel the countries in the region are not pulling up their socks to remove non-tariff barriers
TTIP: A box of tricks for corporate climate criminals
13-Oct-2015 AITEC and CEO
A new briefing by AITEC and CEO explains why TTIP, and especially regulatory cooperation, could put a stranglehold on our ability to create the energy transition required to tackle climate change.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: we’re selling economic sovereignty for little return
13-Oct-2015 The Age
Part of the cost of free trade deals is standardisation – in this case it means adopting US practices.
Why geopolitical arguments in favour of TTIP are also flawed
8-Oct-2015 Speri
The geopolitical ‘setting global standards’ argument that has become central to the advocates’ discourse on TTIP is seriously flawed. TTIP will only lead to high global standards under certain conditions and these conditions are unlikely to be met.
Libre-échange : des effets difficiles à mesurer sur l’emploi
7-Oct-2015 Le Monde
Les conséquences des accords multilatéraux sur le commerce mondial et l’économie sont loin de faire consensus.
Why reassurances that TTIP will not affect the right to regulate miss the point
1-Oct-2015 BEUC
Often times, we hear that the “right to regulate” will be guaranteed under TTIP. Isn’t this the strongest indication that this right might come under pressure?
TTIP negotiations not even half done
29-Sep-2015 Politico
An internal European assessment shows talks stalled on key issues.
EU and US mega deal sparks inflated emotions
28-Sep-2015 World Poultry
Negotiations are about import tariffs but mainly about sanitary and phytosanitary standards, which can have far-reaching consequences for agriculture.
The VW scandal and what does it mean for TTIP?
24-Sep-2015 Transport & Environment
The VW cheating scandal highlights how far we are from any mutual recognition of standards, and how fundamental differences are between the rule of law in the US and in the EU.
TTIP poised to gut US states’ ability to protect on toxic chemicals
23-Sep-2015 CIEL
EU proposals for EU-US trade deal threaten democratic process for protecting people and the environment
Cooperating to deregulate
21-Sep-2015 Corporate Europe Observatory
In the EU institutions, a strategy to roll back “burdensome regulation” for businesses, has been unfolding for the better part of 15 years, and recently, this “Better Regulation Agenda” has been stepped up. This context combined with Regulatory Cooperation under TTIP could open up a new phase of hyper-deregulation.
TTIP vs food sovereignty
2-Sep-2015 Contributoria
TTIP threatens our food future. In addition to campaigning against it, we need to work towards an alternative framework.
The regulatory cooperation chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: institutional structures and democratic consequences
27-Aug-2015 SSRN
This article focuses on the structure, scope, discipline, institutional design, enforcement and implementation of the envisaged horizontal chapter, often defined regulatory cooperation chapter.