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2-Mar-2016 SBS
PNG attacks Australia at Pacific free trade talks
The signing of a Pacific free trade deal in June has been thrown into doubt with the largest island nation Papua New Guinea saying it favours Australia and will damage local industries.
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1-Mar-2016 Public Services International
RCEP threatens tax policies in India and other 15 countries
New report shows that trade and investment deals like RCEP will further adversely affect the ability of the government of India to tax corporations effectively and fairly. -
1-Mar-2016
New ISDS platform launched
New ISDS platform launched A new website to help groups monitor, understand and work to defeat investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms in trade and investment agreements has been launched: http://isds.bilaterals.org. (Read more) -
1-Mar-2016
New ISDS platform launched
A new website to help groups monitor, understand and work to defeat investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms in trade and investment agreements has been launched: http://isds.bilaterals.org. -
1-Mar-2016 EU Observer
The seven sins of the EU investment court
Despite all the talk of reform from commissioner Malmstroem, the threat to democratic decision-making is as alive and dangerous as ever. -
1-Mar-2016 South Centre
The rise of investor-state dispute settlement in the extractive sectors: challenges and considerations for African countries
In African countries, the expansion of international investment agreements could carry significant risks to policy space and policy tools necessary for industrialization and development. -
1-Mar-2016 SSRN
Diplomats want treaties: diplomatic agendas and perks in the investment regime
Strategic foreign policy considerations have driven some investment treaty negotiations. Secondly, some diplomats have been successful in promoting investment treaties to further their own individual interests. -
1-Mar-2016 Tele Sur
Peru’s police violently clashes with Anti-TPP protesters
This is the fifth time Peruvians have demonstrated against the free-trade agreement since the beginning of the secret negotiations. Police violently clashed with protesters.
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1-Mar-2016 PR Newswire
ICSID decides that Tidewater is now free to enforce $37 million of the $65 million arbitral award for the taking of the company’s Venezuelan operations
Enforcement of remaining $28 million remains pending further ICSID decision. -
29-Feb-2016 Flash Mob Stop TTIP
TTIP negotiators outnumbered by citizens!
Featuring Dan Mullaney, Ignacio Bercero, Stop TTIP
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29-Feb-2016 European Commission
EU-Canada FTA (CETA) - consolidated text (February 2016)
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29-Feb-2016 European Commission
CETA: EU and Canada agree on new approach on investment in trade agreement
The European Commission and the Canadian Government have agreed to include a new approach on investment protection and investment dispute settlement in CETA. -
29-Feb-2016 Romania Journal
State loses for good the trial against the Miculas, following ICSID decision
Brothers Viorel and Ioan Micula won the lawsuit against the Romanian state at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and were awarded USD 200 million in damages. -
29-Feb-2016 IC Magazine
Indigenous Peoples’ land and resource rights in Latin America
The impacts of free trade agreements. -
29-Feb-2016 The Guardian
TTIP: EU and US vow to speed up talks on trade deal
Negotiators confirm they hope to reach agreement on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership by end of year. -
26-Feb-2016 DW
Is TTIP in crisis?
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. -
26-Feb-2016 EurActiv
France seeks guarantees for national sovereignty in adoption of TTIP
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. -
26-Feb-2016 Global Post
Poland says to cancel bilateral investment treaties
EU member Poland wants to cancel its bilateral investment treaties (BITS) on the basis of which foreign investors have lodged claims worth nearly a billion euros in international arbitration. -
26-Feb-2016 EurActiv
Mercosur makes EU free trade offer before French visit
South American bloc Mercosur is offering to open up 93% of its trade to competition from the European Union to seal a long-sought free-trade deal. -
25-Feb-2016 Ars Technica
Mozilla, EFF, and Creative Commons call for more openness in trade negotiations
Browser maker Mozilla, digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Creative Commons have called for more openness in global trade agreements.