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TTIP

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

Suing the state: hidden rules within the EU-US trade deal
17-Apr-2014 CEO
This film presents some of the dangers of the investor rights within the proposed EU-US trade deal.
The tar sands mystery and the smoking TTIP gun
15-Apr-2014 EurActiv
The EU’s motivation for a proposal to scrap greenhouse gas intensity targets in its flagship Fuel Quality Directive (FQD), which regulates emissions from transport fuels, has been shrouded in mystery since it was first mooted three months ago, but EurActiv has uncovered new information.
Why is TTIP more than a trade agreement?
7-Apr-2014 TNI
EU and US are currently negotiating a trade and investment agreement. How will this deal affect people from both regions and around the world? See reflections from EU and US activists who gathered to discuss about the impacts and possible solutions.
Investor-state dispute settlement: Council confirms deal with EP
7-Apr-2014 Concilium
The Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) today approved, on behalf of the Council, an agreement reached with the European Parliament on a framework for managing financial responsibility linked to investor-state dispute settlement proceedings.
TTIP: EU Commissioner points finger at US secrecy, investor-state provisions
3-Apr-2014 IP Watch
April Fool’s? European trade commissioner Karel de Gucht says, during a 1 April hearing in Brussels of the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament, that he would agree to drop ISDS from the TTIP if the United States would agree.
A journey through the lobby jungle in Brussels
3-Apr-2014 Lobbycontrol
During the last TTIP negotiating round, CEO and the German lobby watchdog Lobbycontrol organised guided tours through the EU quarter in Brussels, focusing on the corporate lobbying behind the TTIP negotiations and the way that the European Commission allows corporations to set the agenda for the talks.
International Day of farmers’ struggles in defense of peasants’ and farmers’ seeds
2-Apr-2014 La Via Campesina
This day of action is particularly important since on the 11th of March the European Parliament rejected the European Commissions’ regulation proposal for the marketing of seeds. This vote has taken place in the context of a Europe dominated by trade negotiations with the USA, known as TAFTA, and the European Parliament election campaign until May 2014.
Leaked EU analysis of TTIP IPR negotiations
28-Mar-2014 KEI
Here is a two-page excerpt from a March 20, 2014 EU analysis of the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations on intellectual property rights, including geographical indications.
Spanish organizations denounce transatlantic free trade agreement
28-Mar-2014 Prensa Latina
Spanish social and union organizations condemned today trade negotiations between the European Union and the United States to sign the Transatlantic Free Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
The secret deal that threatens the food on your plate
28-Mar-2014 FOEE
Untangling the EU-US trade talks : What are the big concerns for food & farming? What might be the consequences for our food and farming? Friends of the Earth Europe and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy hosted a discussion in Brussels on 13 March 2014.
EU: Online public consultation on ISDS in the TTIP
27-Mar-2014 DG Trade
The European Commission is consulting the public in the EU on a possible approach to investment protection and ISDS in the TTIP between now and 21 June 2014.
Trans-Atlantic labor union calls for higher labor standards in US-European Union trade agreement
27-Mar-2014 Workers Uniting
"We view TTIP as a threat to the rights of workers in Europe," said Len McCluskey, General Secretary of UNITE the Union in the UK and Ireland. "We can’t afford to import America’s low labor rights standards."
Le gaz de schiste au cœur du sommet UE-USA
27-Mar-2014 Euractiv
L’approvisionnement de l’Europe en gaz de schiste dans le cadre du TTIP s’est invité à la table des discussions lors de la visite de Barack Obama à Bruxelles.
Obama is negotiating an agreement that could unleash fracking around the world. See how.
25-Mar-2014 Policy Mic
The translantic trade agreement would undermine hard-fought regulations and open up a large part of the world to greater exploitation without regulation. Fracking would go global.
Investor treaties in trouble
25-Mar-2014
Several countries are reviewing these agreements, prompted by the number of cases brought by foreign companies who claim that changes in government policies affect their future profits.
TTIP and the big pharma wish-list
24-Mar-2014 Commons Network
A report by the Commons Network and civil society partners shows that the pharmaceutical industry’s wish list for the TTIP is detrimental for public health, will increase the cost of medicines and undermines democratic processes
Ukraine crisis gives new impetus to EU-US trade talks, US says
24-Mar-2014 Gulf Daily News
Russia’s annexation of Crimea underlines the need for the United States and the European Union to deepen their economic ties via an ambitious trade deal that would also allow Europe to import US gas, Washington’s top trade official said on Saturday.
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.
Citizens turn up the volume on troubled TTIP negotiations
20-Mar-2014 CEO
On the morning of Thursday 13th March, hundreds of people gathered outside De Gucht’s office – DG Trade in Brussels – with a clear message: STOP TTIP!
Finance Watch says there is no proven case for including financial services in TTIP
19-Mar-2014 Finance Watch
TTIP risks ‘race to the bottom’ in financial services regulation says Finance Watch, the independent public interest group working to make finance serve society.