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

German farmers fear for Europe’s bacon with US trade deal
16-Jan-2014 NPR
When German farmers and activists descended upon Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office building Wednesday morning, they brought along some special guests — 17 pigs. The stunt was the latest European backlash against a proposed free trade deal with the U.S. that could lift restrictions on American meat sold in Europe.
French senators strongly attack EU-US trade deal
14-Jan-2014 Euractiv
During a debate in the French Senate, all political parties harshly criticised the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), but the French government defended the potential deal.
Philip Morris, Australia and the fate of Europe’s trade talks
13-Jan-2014 Inside Story
Australia’s clash with Philip Morris over plain packaging has disrupted trade talks between the United States and Europe, reports James Panichi in Brussels
La Via Campesina appelle à la cohérence des politiques agricoles de l’Union européenne
13-Jan-2014 La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina rappelle les liens très forts entre l’agriculture familiale et les accords de libre échange : l’un et l’autre sont en parfaite contradiction, alors que les défis sociaux et environnementaux qui sont ceux de notre temps doivent pris au sérieux.
Recipe for ruin: TTIP - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
12-Jan-2014 Think Left
John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want, introduces TTIP, the free trade and investment agreement being negotiated between the EU and USA; talk given to Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique at Café Diplo, London, 4 November 2013
FIAN launches international action: TTIP and TPP void
8-Jan-2014 FIAN
FIAN International launched an action letter addressing the EU, USA and a number of countries negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) asking civil society networks, organizations and people interested in supporting the campaign to circulate, sign and send the letter to their local authorities
Business groups back Obama on trade amid historic debate
6-Jan-2014 Bloomberg
Some of the largest US business groups are lining up behind President Barack Obama to pressure Congress to clear the way for a pair of trade deals that could set rules for more than half the world’s economy.
TPP, TTIP could alter US textile & apparel trade
5-Jan-2014 Fibre2fashion
From the view of the textiles and apparel industries, all eyes will be on whether a yarn-forward provision has been included or not in the final documents.
Open letter of civil society against investor privileges in TTIP
27-Dec-2013 Tlaxcala
Over 100 civil society groups and social movements from Europe and the USA have signed on an open letter that was sent to the chief negotiators of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to voice one joint demand: to exclude any Investor-state Dispute Settlement mechanism from the TTIP
A TTIP Christmas wish
27-Dec-2013 IPtegrity
The European authorities want industry to come up with a counter-narrative to civil society in what would appear to be fear of an ACTA protest Mk2. This was revealed in a cosy Brussels soirée held at the American Chamber of Commerce to discuss the intellectual property content of the EU-US trade agreement known as TTIP.
Half million Germans refuse to sign FTA with USA
19-Dec-2013 Prensa Latina
In just five days, 500,000 Germans signed a petition addressed to the European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht and to President of the European Parliament, Martin Schultz to halt the negotiations that began in Washington.
Debate over proposed global trade agreements
19-Dec-2013 Diane Rehm Show
The pros and cons of two trade agreements in the works, TPP and TTIP, from a US perspective.
EU-US trade talks could become ’another Acta’
18-Dec-2013 EU Observer
EU-US free trade talks risk following the same path as Acta, the controversial anti-counterfeit treaty which collapsed in 2012, warns BEUC, a pan-EU organisation representing consumer groups
Advancing regulatory cooperation in the Transatlantic trade and investment partnership
17-Dec-2013 Business Europe
Position paper from Business Europe
EU negotiators to press US to include energy exports in trade talks
17-Dec-2013 Reuters
European negotiators, hoping to cut fuel bills, will press their US counterparts in Washington this week on including energy exports in a transatlantic trade pact that aims to integrate two markets accounting for half the world’s economy.
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - Regulatory coherence chapter (draft EC proposal, Dec 2013)
16-Dec-2013 CEO
Leaked proposal for EU-US trade deal increases business power in decision-making
16-Dec-2013 CEO
A leaked EU negotiation proposal for the EU-US trade agreement reveals the European Commission’s plans to fundamentally change the way regulations will be adopted in the future, says the activist group CEO
EU-US free trade pact cause of concern for Indian pharma firms
11-Dec-2013 Financial Chronicle
There are apprehensions that TTIP would prevent Indian pharma companies to come to market with the same products - they would need to pass through several rounds of additional tests. As a result, prices will move up significantly.
Food safety in the EU-US trade agreement: going outside the box
10-Dec-2013 GRAIN
The transantlantic trade deal’s agenda for food safety if all about reducing hoops for agribusiness. Not only would this hurt Europeans, whose clearly higher standards would be dragged down, but it would affect many other countries’ food producers and consumers, since any deal reached between Washington and Brussels will set a new international benchmark.
Webinar: The promises and perils of proposed US-EU trade deal for food and agriculture
9-Dec-2013 IATP
On the occasion the third round of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) invite you to join them for a webinar on the agreement’s potential impacts on agriculture in the US and EU.