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21-Jun-2016
European Council
The Council authorised, on behalf of the EU, the signature and provisional application of the economic partnership agreement (EPA) between the EU and the East African Community (EAC)
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21-Jun-2016
Upside Down World
The long-running struggle of rural communities in Guatemala against the United States-based mining firm Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates (KCA) continues in Guatemala’s national courts.
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21-Jun-2016
PANG
Defending Pacific ways of life: A Peoples Social Impact Assessment of PACER-Plus, was commissioned by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) to provide Pacific governments, negotiators, parliamentarians, civil society actors, customary landowners and the private sector with an alternative assessment to the impacts that PACER-Plus will have on the region.
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20-Jun-2016
Nigeria Today
The European Union has asked Nigeria to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement with attractive offers including a €6.5bn (about N1.4tn) Development Programme.
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20-Jun-2016
Tele Sur
“We hold free trade agreements responsible for the bankruptcy of small producers, and we want them renegotiated”
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20-Jun-2016
Vieuws
High-level South Korean diplomats have expressed their preference for the old investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system over the Investment Court System (ICS) in the framework of a future investment chapter in the EU-South Korea FTA.
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20-Jun-2016
Prensa Latina
The Guatemala Mining Explorations (Exmingua) threatens with filing a lawsuit against Guatemala after being forced to suspend operations by decree of the Constitutional Court .
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20-Jun-2016
The Ecologist
A leaked text from the ’Trade In Services Agreement’ negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards.
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17-Jun-2016
Vieuws
EU member states are expected to give their formal greenlight to the opening of negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) with Indonesia.
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17-Jun-2016
Stop TTIP
Ask Members of the European Parliament about the planned free trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA). Let’s remove the secrecy behind CETA and bring the discussion out into the open!
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17-Jun-2016
The Guardian
European commission launches world’s first system for classifying and banning endocrine disruptors against a barrage of criticism
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17-Jun-2016
Business Day
Legal practitioners have been saying for some time now that SA’s Protection of Investment Act is not in sync with the country’s commitments under the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Finance and Investment.
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17-Jun-2016
Inquirer
The Philippine government seeks to resolve the international arbitration case with operators of the Malampaya gas platform led by Royal Dutch Shell plc.
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16-Jun-2016
Korea Herald
Colombia informed South Korea earlier in the day that it has completed the ratification process of the deal clinched in 2013, adding that the deal will go into effect on July 15.
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16-Jun-2016
EurActiv
Seemingly insurmountable differences in food standards are threatening to sink trade negotiations between the United States and the European Union.
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16-Jun-2016
ICTSD
Argentina is now an official observer to the Pacific Alliance, the South American bloc that includes Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru as full members.
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16-Jun-2016
PowerShift
The 16 clips of this playlist were produced by members of the S2B network as part of the project "Making EU investment policy work for development".
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15-Jun-2016
Global Trade Review
There has been a rise in investment arbitrations arising out of investment agreements in Asia
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15-Jun-2016
Pakistan Herald
The government decided to review all existing preferential trade pacts through which Pakistan conducts its trade on preferable terms with other countries on bilateral basis.
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15-Jun-2016
Scoop
A new era of openness? RCEP ‘stakeholder’ process just ticks the box