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23-Aug-2015 Malta Independent
TTIP between US and EU ‘threatens Maltese farmers and consumers’
The TTIP deal between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) could have a considerable impact on the way in which food and commodities are produced, traded and regulated, with impacts for farmers and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic. -
21-Aug-2015 Agoravox
Agriculteurs : les raisons de la colère !
Les agriculteurs se retrouvent pris en étau entre d’une part la baisse des prix payés pour leur production et d’autre part la course au rendement, dans une fuite en avant de la production agricole transformée en agro-industrie. -
21-Aug-2015 Star Africa
L’accord commercial entre le Kenya et l’Ouganda est entré en vigueur
L’Ouganda est prêt à mettre en œuvre l’accord commercial bilatéral que les présidents Yoweri Museveni et Uhuru Kenyatta ont signé. -
21-Aug-2015 The Malaysian Insider
EU keen to resume trade talks with Asean, says business council
The European Union (EU) is keen on resuming Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations with Asean as it views the region as a growing economic powerhouse. -
21-Aug-2015 Acidus
TISA, TTIP, CETA, TPP : la mort du service public
Les partisans des libéralisations misent sur de nouveaux accords de libre-échange qui priveraient les Etats de leur capacité à fixer les règles du jeu et accéléreraient le démontage du service public. -
21-Aug-2015 All Africa
Southern Africa: is the latest FTA another booby prize for Africa?
Some petty "sovereign" economic interests are the main reason why a billion dynamic people in Africa with such incredible natural resources continue to live in poverty. -
21-Aug-2015 The Ecologist
The perfect pinta vs. the TTIP trade tanker
Britain’s dairy farmers have been having a hard time largely thanks to their exposure to an unregulated, unstable, global food market. -
21-Aug-2015 Le Quotidien
De l’utilité du vote
Si le respect du suffrage universel ne semble pas être une priorité des dirigeants européens, il est alors légitime de s’inquiéter du sort qui sera réservé au nouveau veau d’or de notre classe dirigeante, le futur traité de libre-échange transatlantique. -
20-Aug-2015 CBC
Feds appealing NAFTA tribunal decision of Nova Scotia quarry project
Canada is appealing a potentially expensive decision from a NAFTA tribunal, arguing the tribunal "exceeded its jurisdiction" when it upheld a claim from a New Jersey concrete company, Bilcon, that it was entitled to compensatory damages. -
20-Aug-2015 MTUC
TPPA compromises M’sian workers
Government of Malaysia has proposed several amendments be made to the Sabah Labour Ordinance, the Industrial Relations Act and Workers’ Union Act to allow TPPA to materialise but labour groups are opposed to such measures. -
20-Aug-2015 Irish Independent
Trade deal could put Big Tobacco’s interests before public health
The tobacco industry has deep pockets. The industry uses its profits to resist measures being taken by governments all across the world to cut smoking and deaths from smoking. -
20-Aug-2015 The Online Citizen
GE issues – The Trans-Pacific Partnership and our political will
What TPP means for Singapore, politics and you. -
20-Aug-2015 Andina
Peru moves forward with trade agreements agenda
Peru is making progress in implementing the agenda of new trade agreements -
20-Aug-2015 ECNS
Foreign investment favors FTZs
China’s eastern and coastal areas are again favorite destinations for foreign investors as some cities have set up pilot free trade zones -
20-Aug-2015 TUC
TUC briefing on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
TUC Congress believes that the primary purpose of TTIP is to extend corporate investor rights’ and thus adopted a position of ‘outright opposition’ to TTIP. -
20-Aug-2015 Altermonde-sans-frontières
Melinda Saint-Louis : « Le traité transatlantique ne profitera qu’aux 1% »
Je vois donc moins cet accord comme une lutte entre les sociétés américaines et européennes, que comme un traité qui ne bénéficiera, des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, qu’aux « 1 % » -
19-Aug-2015 Intellectual Property Watch
Five reasons why TPP countries should unite to oppose the US pharmaceutical IP agenda
Failure to reach agreement over expanded intellectual property (IP) protections for medicines has proven to be a stumbling block to completion of the 12-country Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations. -
19-Aug-2015 The Korea Observer
S. Korea, Ecuador set to launch FTA talks
South Korea and Ecuador will announce the start of negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) next week -
19-Aug-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation
Will Hollywood’s whining thwart better TPP copyright rules?
Hollywood groups are behaving like spoiled children: if they don’t get exactly what they want, they’ll whine to policymakers until they do. -
19-Aug-2015 FSRN
New Zealand: nationwide actions protest controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership
Thousands of protesters across New Zealand are ringing the alarm on the TPP, saying it is far from a standard trade agreement and could threaten the sovereignty of countries that sign it.