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23-Jan-2015 Amazon Watch
Chevron’s battered image over Ecuador ecological disaster takes another hit in Davos
Oil giant wins "lifetime achievement" award for efforts to evade justice -
23-Jan-2015 Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung
TPP and TTIP: Partners in crime
Mike Dolan, Vice-President of the Citizens’ Trade Campaign, takes stock of the resistance against both TPP and TTIP in the United States and outlines the strategy we need if we want to prevent the passage of “trade” agreements that threaten to kill jobs, undermine labor standards and environmental regulations, limit access to generic drugs, and even aim to exempt corporations from the judicial process. -
23-Jan-2015 EU Observer
EU-US trade talks in ’troubled waters’
EU-US trade talks are “in troubled waters” and need a “fresh start for parliament to approve an agreement”, the chairman of the assembly’s international trade committee has said. -
23-Jan-2015 EurActiv
TTIP is ’big bonanza’ for developing countries, EU claims
German Development Minister Gerd Müller counters criticism of TTIP with study on how it will impact developing and newly industrialised countries -
23-Jan-2015 The Local
Merkel offers Russia free-trade agreement
Germany would be prepared to negotiate a free-trade agreement between the European Union and Russia as a way out of the deadlocked Ukraine conflict, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. -
23-Jan-2015 Xinhua
Interview: Finnish PM calls for EU-China FTA
"Now we are working very much on trying to agree on a bilateral investment treaty between the EU and China, then hopefully ... get a free trade agreement (FTA) as well," Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb told Xinhua in an interview. -
23-Jan-2015 Reuters
Mexico says Pacific free trade deal ’feasible’ in mid-March
A deal on a 12-nation Asia-Pacific trade pact could be concluded in mid-March, Mexico’s economy minister, Ildefonso Guajardo, said on Thursday. -
22-Jan-2015 Reuters
UK aims to pass law to ban branding on cigarette packs before May
Cigarette sales have dropped in Australia since plain packaging was introduced on Dec. 1, 2012, prompting Britain to act before its national election in May even as Australia battles international legal challenges from other countries and manufacturers. -
21-Jan-2015 AFK Insider
West Africa farmers against EU economics, international competition
Farmers in West Africa fear being overwhelmed by industrial and agrarian products from EU countries under the ECOWAS-EU Economic Partnership Agreement. -
21-Jan-2015 Beyond Brics
India and bilateral investment treaties – are they worth it?
Instead of relying only on a treaty-based approach, India should initiate domestic policy reforms to attract and protect foreign investments, argues Kavaljit Singh -
21-Jan-2015 The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
Why UK parliament should scrutinise the UK-Ethiopia bilateral investment treaty (BIT)
If TTIP is bad, the UK-Ethiopia BIT is worse, says Lorenzo Cotula of IIED -
21-Jan-2015 Western Morning News
Government urged to protect interests of UK poultry farmers
The competitiveness of UK poultry producers is at risk if the EU-US trade negotiations proceed on the basis that products are of an ’equivalent’ standard. -
21-Jan-2015 Jagran Post
India, European Union may resume FTA talks
After a gap of almost 20 months, India and European Union are likely to resume talks for the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to boost commerce and investment. -
21-Jan-2015 The Guardian
Democrats oppose Obama’s demand for fast-tracking Pacific trade deal
Congressional Democrats are set to demonstrate their “lack of support” for the fast track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) the morning after Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. -
21-Jan-2015 India Together
Missing: Intellectual property rights with a social lens
The Modi government has moved fast and furious on charting a new policy regarding intellectual property rights, in close contact with the US -
21-Jan-2015 TASR
PKS demands that agro-food sector should be excluded from TTIP
The Slovak Food Chamber (PKS) demands that the entire agro-food sector should be excluded from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union (EU) and the USA from the very beginning -
20-Jan-2015 TNI
Licensed to grab: How international investment rules undermine agrarian justice
This brief analyses and illustrates how international investment rules thwart the struggle for land and food sovereignty. -
20-Jan-2015 Business Standard
Time not yet ripe for trade pact with US, caution Indian experts
India may not be prepared to meet US demands on various issues, including environment and labour standards, and regulatory changes -
19-Jan-2015 CBC
CETA negotiations suspended over fisheries fund, N.L. says
Newfoundland and Labrador is suspending support for CETA and all trade agreements currently being negotiated with the federal government. -
19-Jan-2015 Reuters
EU health chief says no clear majority yet for US trade deal
No clear majority has so far emerged among EU states for a free-trade agreement between the European Union and the United States and both sides need to explain the benefits of such a deal, the EU’s health chief said.