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Ukrainian leftist: ’The enemy is within – whether in Russia, Ukraine or the West’
31-Mar-2014 Links
What will happen next in Ukraine? The coordinated plundering of the country by both sides (the West and Russia), says Kolesnik Dmitry.
Large crowds fill Taipei streets in protest over China trade bill
31-Mar-2014 NYTimes
More than 100,000 demonstrators — some television news stations put the number as high as 700,000 — took to the streets of Taipei on Sunday to protest efforts by the government to approve a trade pact with China and to show support for the students who have occupied Taiwan’s Legislature for nearly two weeks.
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.
Indonesia terminates its BIT with the Netherlands from 1 July 2015 and may terminate all of its BITs
28-Mar-2014 Lexology
While certain countries have terminated individual BITs, termination of all BITs would be unprecedented.
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).
Jon Weissman: A free trade pact’s sorry numbers
28-Mar-2014 Gazette Net
New evidence of the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement’s damaging record provides the latest reason why Congress should not delegate away its constitutional trade authority and allow the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be “fast-tracked” into place.
Tripartite FTA: Answer to poor intra-African trade
28-Mar-2014 Southern Times
African countries need to look at the possibility of fast-tracking the tripartite Free Trade Area if hopes of an improved intra-African trade are to be met anytime soon, according to the African Union Commission
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.
Japan FTA dairy concerns
28-Mar-2014 Farmonline
The push by the Australian Government to have a hand-shake deal done by the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, when he visited Japan in April could see dairy miss out, Australian Dairy Farmers president Noel Campbell said.
Ghana: Don’t sign Economic Partnership Agreement - Coalition urges gov’t
28-Mar-2014 Ghana Web
A coalition of civil society organisations, farmer-based groups, religious organisations and labour unions have asked President John Mahama to show commitment to encouraging the productive capacity of Ghanaians by not signing the Economic Partnership Agreement.
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.
Costa Rica rounds out free trade agreements with Europe
27-Mar-2014 Tico Times
The Legislative Assembly has approved a bill sealing a free trade agreement with EFTA, a group of non-EU countries including Lichtenstein, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
EU accelerates FTA negotiations with Vietnam
27-Mar-2014 VOV
The European Union is speeding up negotiations of a free trade agreement with Vietnam due to be signed in late 2014.
Taiwan’s students head to the streets with sunflowers to protest closer ties with China
27-Mar-2014 Public Radio International
The students call their protest against the China-Taiwan trade agreement "the sunflower revolution" as the flower is a symbol of hope. Some professors have moved classes to the demonstrations sites themselves.
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.
NZ actors to rally against secretive TPPA
27-Mar-2014 It’s Our Future
Equity New Zealand will join unions, community organisations, academics, creatives and students in co-sponsoring the national Day of Action to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement this Saturday, 29 March.
Out of TPPA frying pan, into EU-FTA fire? - Kelsey
27-Mar-2014 Voxy
The New Zealand government is striking a brick wall in getting concessions on dairy from the US and Japan in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, and will have an equal or greater battle in its plans for a free trade agreement with the European Union, said Professor Jane Kelsey from the University of Auckland.
TRADE PACT SIEGE: Survey shows public favors students’ demands
26-Mar-2014 Taipei Times
About 80 percent of Taiwnese people polled this week express support for the demands made by students protesting against the controversial cross-strait services trade agreement.
Japan and Australia fail to agree on tariffs in FTA talks
26-Mar-2014 Kyodo
Japan and Australia failed to reach an agreement over cutting tariffs on farm products during ministerial talks Wednesday in Tokyo and could only confirm they will continue the negotiations.