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The need for a Southern Observatory on transnational investment
18-May-2016 IISD
The objective of the Observatory is to become a forum for the objective settlement of investment disputes with transnational corporations.
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
18-Apr-2016 The Guardian
Where neoliberal policies cannot be imposed domestically, they are imposed internationally, through trade treaties.
Mozilla, EFF, and Creative Commons call for more openness in trade negotiations
25-Feb-2016 Ars Technica
Browser maker Mozilla, digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Creative Commons have called for more openness in global trade agreements.
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.
TPP protesters alarmed by corruption, urge leaders not to sign
1-Feb-2016 Tele Sur
Bribery allegations against Japan’s lead TPP negotiator have sparked public concerns that corruption may have influenced the corporate-friendly deal.
Haiti’s fraudulent presidential frontrunner seizes land for his own banana republic
22-Jan-2016 Other Worlds
Farmers remain homeless and out of work while the land grabbed by the company Jovenel Moïse founded, Agritrans, now hosts a private banana plantation. Moïse is the only man running in Haiti’s fraudulent runoff presidential elections this Sunday, and is connected to the land grab responsible for the expulsion of as many as 800 peasants.
EU appeals ECJ annulment of EU-Morocco Free Trade deal
15-Dec-2015 WSRW
The European Union has appealed the judgement from the EU Court of Justice.
New TTIP ‘transparency’ agenda still leaves public in the dark
7-Dec-2015 War on Want
The Brussels deal, a product of intense public pressure, is wholly undermined by the fact that MEPs will still face draconian secrecy measures.
All MEPs to have access to all confidential TTIP documents
4-Dec-2015 European Parliament
All Members of the European Parliament will have access to all categories of confidential documents relating to the EU’s Transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP) talks with the USA.
TPP is about many things, but free trade? Not so much
10-Nov-2015 The Globe and Mail
Let’s be clear about the just-released, negotiated-in-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership deal: it is definitely not a “free-trade” agreement. It’s much more than that.
TTIP trade talks continue under veil of secrecy in miami - official
23-Oct-2015 Sputnik
A trade official from America’s largest labor union said that chief negotiators of TTIP agreement persisted to show contempt for transparency by failing to provide any meaningful details to the deal’s most critical stakeholders.
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
Court finds against Trade Minister on TPPA Secrecy
13-Oct-2015 Scoop
Court finds against Trade Minister on TPPA Secrecy; Chief Ombudsman wrongly upheld his unlawful decision
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.
I didn’t think TTIP could get any scarier, but then I spoke to the EU official in charge of it
13-Oct-2015 The Independent
With just eight words she exposed everything that’s wrong with the deal, and why it needs to be defeated
No to FTAs!
8-Oct-2015 Ibon
TPP, like other Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), is fashioned by industrial countries and their transnational corporations to further intensify the concentration of resources, wealth, and power into their hands leaving developing countries.
Malaysia should withdraw from TPP, says Malay economic body
2-Oct-2015 The Malaysian Insider
Malaysia should withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) now, said a Malay economic group, warning that the contentious trade deal will result in negative economic growth and have implications on the country’s sovereignty.
A need for preventive investment protection?
2-Oct-2015 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
There is an obvious need at the investors’ side for a mechanism making it possible to prevent the threatened violation of their investment. It is fair to say that where the violation of the investment is still only potential, notifying the dispute should be the primary tool for investment protection.
NBR Radio Special: Jane Kelsey on TPP legal action
29-Sep-2015 NBR
Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey is challenging an “unlawful” government decision to deny an official trade document request.