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TTIP

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

Obama seeks to fast track TTIP
7-Jul-2015 Left Foot Forward
Unions such as Unite and the United Steelworkers in the US and Canada have warned that their hard fought for and cherished social, employment rights and sectoral collective bargaining system may be undermined by new trade deals.
Protests in Bulgaria’s capital and Varna against TTIP agreement between EU and USA
6-Jul-2015 FOCUS News Agency
Civil protests were staged this weekend in coastal Varna and in Sofia themed “No to TTIP and CETA”.
TTIP aim to lift US oil export ban goes against climate targets
3-Jul-2015 The Guardian
EU push to lift restrictions on US crude oil and liquefied natural gas exports as part of controversial trade deal could explode Canada’s tar sands carbon bomb and push up carbon emissions
Flashmob choir interrupts TTIP congress
3-Jul-2015 Boing Boing
At a pro-TTIP congress where the Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister was promoting the treaty, a flashmob of attendees stood up singing "Do You Hear the People Sing?" a rousing revolutionary song from Les Miserables.
US-Europe trade pact adds to Switzerland’s pain
1-Jul-2015 Bloomberg
"TTIP is going to affect Switzerland very much. There is a fear we’re going to be locked out and some of our companies discriminated," a government official told the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday
TTIP: Why we are asking for an immediate suspension? With a sense of urgency !
1-Jul-2015 CNCD-11.11.11
Human rights organizations have joined the broad Belgian coalition of the trade union confederations, mutuality’s, consumer organizations and environmental and development umbrella NGOs and are asking for an immediate suspension of the TTIP negotiations.
TTIP: MEPs pave way for plenary vote by retabling June amendments
30-Jun-2015 European Parliament
International Trade Committee MEPs on Monday paved the way for a plenary vote on the European Parliament’s draft recommendations for Transatlantic Trade and investment partnership (TTIP) negotiators, by retabling the June plenary amendments which had been referred back for reconsideration.
"TTIP free" zones
30-Jun-2015
List of pages where you can find out which cities/towns/regions have declared themselves as TTIP-free, by country
’Nein Danke’ — smaller German firms see US trade deal as threat
29-Jun-2015 Reuters
Small and medium-sized companies known as the ’Mittelstand’ that account for 89 percent of Germany’s exporters are skeptical of the trade deal being hammered out between Brussels and Washington.
US Congress passes anti-BDS legislation, key trade bill
25-Jun-2015 i24News
The so-called trade promotion authority bill passed by Congress requires US negotiators to make the rejection of the BDS campaign a principal trade objective in negotiations with the European Union.
Parliament’s trade committee to vote on TTIP Monday
25-Jun-2015 Politico
The European Parliament on Monday will again struggle to advance the giant EU-US trade deal, after a compromise blew up between the two legislature’s biggest political parties in early June.
Analysis: OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing ’trade’ under the TPP?
25-Jun-2015 TeleSur
The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
Cut NHS from trade deal say doctors
24-Jun-2015 Herald Scotland
Doctors attending the British Medical Association’s (BMA) annual representative meeting in Liverpool have voted overwhelmingly to urge the Government to remove health and social care services from a controversial trade agreement between the EU and US
Malmström predicts Canadian-EU trade deal by July
24-Jun-2015 Politico
EU trade chief Cecilia Malmström said Tuesday the bloc’s pending trade pact with Canada could be done by the end of July, but acknowledged the more controversial EU-US agreement will get pushed to next year.
TUC General Secretary calls time on ‘zombie trade deals’
23-Jun-2015 Economic Voice
TUC General Secretary, Frances O’Grady, will call time on ‘zombie trade deals’, when she addresses the European Commission Trade Policy Day in Brussels today (Tuesday).
Dim prospects for TTIP talks under Luxembourg EU presidency
22-Jun-2015 Europe Online
The chances for a conclusion to negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) this year are poor, Luxembourg‘s foreign minister said in an interview with a German newspaper published Monday.
Future of ISDS in TTIP and beyond. Is now the time for reform?
19-Jun-2015 Lexology
A consensus is clearly forming around changes and adjustments needed to reform ISDS, but the main stakeholders – businesses and governments – have yet to make a clear stand, argue Adrian-Catalin Bulboaca and Marius Iliescu
SYRIZA says Europarliament must reject TTIP
17-Jun-2015 Greece Today
According to SYRIZA, ISDS undermined economic democracy by treating the rights of peoples and their elected representatives as equal to the rights of an economic oligarchy, essentially amounting to an exemption for large multinationals from democratic controls and continuing a conversion of western democracies to states where elections cannot bring about changes to economic policy.
EU Parliamentarians call on Congress to stop Fast Track
17-Jun-2015 Popular Resistance
42 members of the European Union Parliament delivered a letter to the United States Congress regarding the negotiation of bilateral trade agreements
Luxembourg MEPs called upon to vote ’no’ on TTIP
16-Jun-2015 Luxemburger Wort
A Luxembourg platform calling for plans for a US-EU trade partnership to be abandoned has urged the Grand Duchy’s MEPs to vote against the proposals put forward by the European Commission.