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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (EU-US FTA), sometimes also called Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA)

The risks of mutual recognition of voluntary industry standards within the context of a future EU - US trade agreement (TTIP) and alternative approaches
8-Aug-2015 CEN CENELEC
Report sets out the risks to the voluntary single standard system that would arise from the mutual recognition of European and US industry standards
Why Europe and the US are locked in a food fight over TTIP
8-Aug-2015 The Conversation
It is not certain whether TTIP will relent and grant European food products even the limited protection they have under CETA
TTIP, CETA, TISA and public services
5-Aug-2015 War on Want
What is the threat from free trade agreements to public services?
TTIP protest takes to the streets
3-Aug-2015 Western Telegraph
Healthcare protesters People’s NHS Wales lined several streets in Haverfordwest with placards in their latest bid to highlight concerns over what the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) could mean for our health service.
Crise de l’élevage, crise de modèle
3-Aug-2015 Global
Sous la contrainte de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) et des traités de libre-échange, l’Union européenne a abandonné la régulation de ses productions agricoles et supprimé la préférence communautaire.
European Parliament says REACH must not be included in TTIP
29-Jul-2015 ITRI
Chemical Watch reports that the European Parliament has asked the European Commission not to negotiate on issues related to REACH and its implementation in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the US.
The Customs Bill: an unacceptable barrier to climate action
29-Jul-2015 CIEL
A proposed amendment to the Trade Priorities and Accountability Act (TPA) incorporated into the House version of the US Customs Bill poses significant risks to future progress on climate mitigation if accepted.
EU steps up PR campaign to overcome US trade deal hostility
27-Jul-2015 Reuters
European officials are ruing their failure to spot early signs of opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
National MPs could block US trade deal, activists say
26-Jul-2015 EU Observer
A study by the Institute of Law at the University of Cologne finds that in all EU member states, except for Malta, a parliamentary approval process would be necessary to sign TTIP and the provisionally-agreed trade deal with Canada (CETA) into law.
Anonymous hacks US Census Bureau over TTIP agreement, leaking employee details online
23-Jul-2015 Intenational Business Times
Anonymous claims responsibility for a cyber-attack conducted against a US government website because of TTIP and TPP talks
Time to challenge the influence of big business in EU policy making
21-Jul-2015 The Parliament Magazine
The EU’s well-oiled revolving doors are keeping corporate lobbying in the TTIP driving seat, argue Vicky Cann and David Lundy
TTIP and UN treaty: the EU must stand up for human rights
17-Jul-2015 FIDH
Adopting an ’empty chair’ policy in Geneva instead of engaging in a productive debate, next to the strong trans-institutional push for the Commission-backed TTIP, paints a grim picture of a Europe that puts corporate interest ahead of human rights and companies before people.
How the US is using a secret agreement on services to wriggle out of its WTO obligations
17-Jul-2015 The Wire
It is increasingly evident that the TiSA negotiations are an attempt to pressure developing countries to grant greater liberalisation in sectors of interest to the US and other industrialised countries, without the latter having to pay any price for it, writes Chakravarthi Raghavan
How global trade agreements undermine sustainable business: The American Sustainable Business Council perspective
15-Jul-2015 Just Means
The American Sustainable Business Council explains that the point of greatest concern in TPP, TTIP and especially the TiSA agreement is the proposal to allow corporations to sue governments in an international tribunal.
TTIP: a corporate lobbying paradise
14-Jul-2015 CEO
Which businesses are pushing most for the proposed EU-US trade deal TTIP? Who’s influencing EU negotiators?
TTIP will force all Europeans to take Greece’s medicine
14-Jul-2015 Politics.co.uk
If the Greek crisis has shown how the institutions of the EU will stop at nothing to force through their own brand of capitalist discipline, TTIP is confirmation that we will all soon be tasting the same medicine.
IBON primer on 21st Century free trade agreements
13-Jul-2015 IBON
New free trade deals across regions such as the TPPA, TTIP and TiSA, among many others are being negotiated that will have far-reaching implications for peoples in both the global North and South and for the future of the world economy. But these deals will neither benefit the democratic majority nor rescue the world economy in crisis.
Ministry of economy to assess TTIP impact in Belgium
12-Jul-2015 Belga
In a public invitation to tender, the Ministry of the Economy announced recently that it is to investigate the potential impact the free trade agreement between the United States and Europe (TTIP) would have on Belgium.
MEPs urged to vote against TTIP deal
8-Jul-2015 The National
MEPS are being urged to reject a controversial trade agreement between the US and the EU when a report on the deal is voted on today in the European Parliament.
EP chief brokers internal deal on US trade court
8-Jul-2015 EU Observer
The European Parliament’s proposed ISDS-lite, which some say was concocted by Merkel’s office, goes to non-binding vote today