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TTIP

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

Survey: German companies call for changes to free trade agreement
11-Mar-2016 MORE
Ohoven: “TTIP must not be allowed to benefit big business only”
Latest round of TTIP talks boost momentum
10-Mar-2016 EurActiv
Progress was made in the latest round of TTIP talks, but negotiators have a long way to go if the deal is to be signed before Barack Obama leaves office.
Open letter to Věra Jourová: from Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield, words in the wind
10-Mar-2016 La Quadrature du Net
The "Privacy Shield", an agreement stemming from an exchange of letters, only contains vague promises.
France sees the EU-Canada agreement as a ‘template’ for TTIP
9-Mar-2016 EurActiv
Paris would like to “copy-paste” key passages from the EU-Canada free trade agreement, concluded this week, particularly those relating to the arbitration court that is such a controversial issue in Europe.
United States and Europe disagree on GM crops
3-Mar-2016 The Irish News
America, where GMOs have been in the human supply chain for more than two decades, want their currently banned crops to be imported into Europe.
TTIP negotiators outnumbered by citizens!
29-Feb-2016 Flash Mob Stop TTIP
Featuring Dan Mullaney, Ignacio Bercero, Stop TTIP
TTIP: EU and US vow to speed up talks on trade deal
29-Feb-2016 The Guardian
Negotiators confirm they hope to reach agreement on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership by end of year.
Is TTIP in crisis?
26-Feb-2016 DW
The free trade negotiations between the EU and the US in Brussels this week are not going well. This time the Americans are dragging their feet, and there’s talk of a trimmed-down version of TTIP.
France seeks guarantees for national sovereignty in adoption of TTIP
26-Feb-2016 EurActiv
Paris has argued that the transatlantic trade deal should have to be approved by the EU’s national parliaments before it can take effect, not just the European institutions.
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.
EU poultry sector concerned about TTIP deal
25-Feb-2016 World Poultry
Representatives of the European poultry industry are increasingly expressing concerns about the upcoming free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States.
EU told ExxonMobil that TTIP would aid global expansion, documents reveal
25-Feb-2016 The Guardian
Trade chief told oil giant in secret talks that free trade deal could address its concerns over regulations restricting activities in developing countries.
German SMEs join forces to resist TTIP
24-Feb-2016 DW
TTIP aims to spur growth and create jobs on both sides of the Atlantic, but there are doubts among some small and midsized businesses in Germany.
Farmers fear for their future as new TTIP round opens
22-Feb-2016 EurActiv
As negotiators prepare for the 12th round of TTIP talks, the crisis in French agriculture is compounding the sector’s fears over the trade deal.
Tariffs dropped to zero
21-Feb-2016 Correct!v
TTIP: Secret document reveals in detail the EU offer to drop 97 percent of its tariffs on US goods.
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft EU revised offer for chemicals (October 2015)
21-Feb-2016 Correct!v
As leaked by Correct!v
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft EU revised tariff offer (October 2015)
21-Feb-2016 Correct!v
As leaked by Correct!v
US-EU trade will undermine ’tax justice,’ says report
16-Feb-2016 Tele Sur
The secretive TTIP could make it easier than ever for big business to sue governments, according to new research.
I am an artist and I want to stop TTIP
15-Feb-2016 Huffington Post
Artists Against TTIP wants to work with actors, writers and directors to make films that help more and more people understand what TTIP is - and how toxic it is to our health, our environment and our democracy.
The predators behind the TPP
8-Feb-2016 The Japan Times
Powerful corporations have been allowed to swallow the state; they have created a “predator state,” which they naturally exploit for their own expansion.