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Anti-TPP campaigners argue text ban is unlawful
28-Sep-2015 Radio New Zealand
A court has been told that the government’s refusal to release information about the Trans-Pacific Partnership is unlawful and constitutionally dangerous.
Gordon Campbell on TPP dairy , and investor-state disputes
28-Sep-2015 Scoop
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s TPP done deal on dairy, and on investor-state disputes
French minister: ’TTIP talks are not transparent’
28-Sep-2015 EU Observer
Negotiations for an EU-US free trade agreement "are not transparent" and could end if no progress is made, French trade minister Mathias Fekl said.
Australia’s treaty-making process is broken. The China free trade deal is a case in point
13-Sep-2015 The Guardian
By the time a free trade agreement like Chafta reaches parliament it has already been agreed to. Democracy demands more than a ‘take it or leave it’ approach
Local councils tearing strips off TTIP
13-Sep-2015 New Internationalist
Politicians in both Brussels and Westminster have taken great pains to try and brush off people’s many concerns about the toxic trade deal being pushed through by the EU and the United States.
The TPP will finish what Chile’s dictatorship started
11-Sep-2015 The Nation
This September 11th will be the forty-second anniversary of the US-backed coup against the democratically-elected Chilean government. Salvador Allende warned against neoliberalism’s disastrous effects just before he was overthrown. He was right to be worried.
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.
Free trade treaty ratification rests squarely on Executive
10-Sep-2015 The Age
The government has a number of options to get the contentious China Australia Free Trade Agreement over the line.
The Trans­Pacific Partnership: a neoliberal escalation
2-Sep-2015 Flush the TPP
The outcome of such a process, based on what we know so far, is what one might reasonably expect: “a wishlist of the 1%–a worldwide corporate power”.
The promised ‘transparency’ around TTIP has been a sham
1-Sep-2015 The Guardian
The EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström promised another offensive on TTIP transparency. Unfortunately, most politicians in the European parliament are as much in the dark as ordinary citizens.
De l’utilité du vote
21-Aug-2015 Le Quotidien
Si le respect du suffrage universel ne semble pas être une priorité des dirigeants européens, il est alors légitime de s’inquiéter du sort qui sera réservé au nouveau veau d’or de notre classe dirigeante, le futur traité de libre-échange transatlantique.
USTR proposal in TPP would undermine state sovereign immunity for patents, copyrights
27-Jul-2015 KEI
TPP would violate the right of US states to protection from suit for patent, trademark or copyright infringement
Six tough questions about the China trade deal
22-Jun-2015 The Tyee
Gus Van Harten, author of ’Sold Down the Yangtze,’ breaks down the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement’s impacts.
TiSA - draft annex on transparency (April 2014)
3-Jun-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on transparency (January 2015)
3-Jun-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
Certification will give US excessive leverage in the TPPA
7-May-2015 Free Malaysia Today
The Malaysian government must scrap certification from the TPPA as it allows the US president to unilaterally amend FTAs for US interests, says Charles Santiago
China deal trumps Province, First Nations on energy projects: treaty expert
24-Sep-2014 The Tyee
The controversial Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPPA), which the Harper government signed into effect without parliamentary debate, "means that any B.C. government or legislature or courts would now be subject to obligations arranged by the federal government and China under the treaty," says Osgoode Law School professor Gus Van Harten.
TTIP and the Scottish referendum
28-Aug-2014 WDM
Whatever the outcome of the independence referendum on 18 September, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could force Scotland to adopt a system that allows US multinationals to provide public services.
De Gucht assures that TTIP will probably be a mixed agreement
26-May-2014 Agence Europe
European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht has said that the national parliaments of the 28 EU member states will “very likely” need to ratify the future EU-US free trade agreement that is currently being negotiated.
In trade talks, it’s countries vs. companies
20-Mar-2014 Bloomberg
A high-profile campaign by opponents to ISDS could complicate TTIP talks long after the listening period in Europe ends.