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

TTIP: EU negotiators appear to break environmental pledge in leaked draft
24-Oct-2015 The Guardian
As Miami talks wind up, environmental safeguards are ‘virtually non-existent’ in trade deal negotiating text for sustainable development, lawyers say
EU focuses on three sectors in procurement; won’t challenge SME policy
23-Oct-2015 World Trade Online
In bilateral trade talks with the United States, the European Union has signaled that its efforts to expand the types of U.S. government procurement contracts open to EU firms will focus on three specific sectors.
Dirty hands on dirty deals
23-Oct-2015 CEO
What do the UN climate talks in Paris this December, “COP21”, and the ongoing EU-US trade negotiations, TTIP, have in common?
How trade agreements harm open access and open source
23-Oct-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Open access isn’t explicitly covered in any of the secretive trade negotiations that are currently underway but that doesn’t mean that they won’t have a negative impact on those seeking to publish or use open access materials.
Powerful pesticide lobby attacks bee-saving regulations at Miami trade talks
23-Oct-2015 Friends of the Earth
U.S. and European Union trade negotiators appear to be actively considering adopting the agenda of chemical and pesticide industry lobbyists.
TTIP trade talks continue under veil of secrecy in miami - official
23-Oct-2015 Sputnik
A trade official from America’s largest labor union said that chief negotiators of TTIP agreement persisted to show contempt for transparency by failing to provide any meaningful details to the deal’s most critical stakeholders.
Geographical indications in TTIP: an impossible task
23-Oct-2015 Cato
The protection of geographical indications (GIs) is slated to be one of the more contentious parts of the TTIP negotiations.
Tariffs to be focus of 11th round of talks on EU-US trade deal
19-Oct-2015 Europe Online
The United States and the European Union will seek to make progress on tariffs during the 11th round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Leaked documents show TTIP negotiations in deadlock on most issues
19-Oct-2015 Sputnik
EU member states are concerned about the “tough negotiation process in all key areas” of the TTIP agreement
Fallout from EU-US Safe Harbour ruling will be dramatic and far-reaching
16-Oct-2015 Ars Technica
Clever ruling by the Court of Justice will be almost impossible to circumvent. The "Safe Harbour" ruling is likely to affect trade agreements like TISA and TTIP in important ways.
Member states give Commission green light to go ahead with second tariff offer in TTIP
15-Oct-2015 Vieuws
Following intensive technical discussions, the trade representatives backed the Commission’s proposal to upgrade from 96% to 97% the EU’s offer on full abolition of tariff lines at the entry into force of the agreement.
The Volkswagen scandal and TTIP
15-Oct-2015 Euranet Plus
The Volkswagen scandal has, above all, shown to the general public what had long been clear to people in Europe who are campaigning for better air quality: the car industry has too much influence on politics in Europe.
German government hits back after TTIP demo
14-Oct-2015 EurActiv
Despite the massive anti-TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) protest in Berlin, the German government and industry still want to press on with the negotiations
EU deal will put elderly care at risk
14-Oct-2015 The Irish Examiner
Elderly people’s homes in Ireland will be open to unfettered competition putting care at risk under the terms being drafted for the trade and services agreement between the EU and the US.
TTIP: A box of tricks for corporate climate criminals
13-Oct-2015 AITEC and CEO
A new briefing by AITEC and CEO explains why TTIP, and especially regulatory cooperation, could put a stranglehold on our ability to create the energy transition required to tackle climate change.
Stop TTIP signature hand-over action in Brussels, 7 Oct 2015
13-Oct-2015 Stop TTIP
Stop TTIP signature hand-over action in Brussels
I didn’t think TTIP could get any scarier, but then I spoke to the EU official in charge of it
13-Oct-2015 The Independent
With just eight words she exposed everything that’s wrong with the deal, and why it needs to be defeated
Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA
12-Oct-2015 CEO
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector.
Berlin anti-TTIP trade deal protest attracts hundreds of thousands
12-Oct-2015 The Guardian
Environmental groups, charities and opposition parties who organised protest against free trade deal between the EU and US say 250,000 people took part
The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system: TPP, TTIP, TISA
8-Oct-2015 TheWikiLeaksChannel
Wikileaks - The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system