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  • 9-Feb-2015
    Acronyms
    Common acronyms found on this site
  • 9-Feb-2015 S2B Network
    S2B statement on EU-Myanmar investment treaty
    The Seattle to Brussels Network call upon the European Commission not to push through with the negotiations for an investment treaty with Myanmar as it will not help but hurt democratic transition.
  • 9-Feb-2015 JD Supra
    The ’Law 42’ arbitrations against Ecuador and the importance of BIT language
    Three recent ICSID decisions involving Ecuador highlight the importance of language addressing the status of taxes in investment treaties.
  • 9-Feb-2015 Sputnik
    China proposing to establish free trade zone with Eurasian Economic Union
    China has proposed to the Eurasian Economic Union to think about creation of a free trade zone, according to Russian Ambassador to China Andrei Denisov.
  • 9-Feb-2015
    Feb-2015: Relaunch of bilaterals.org
    9 February 2015 Dear friends, 2014 marked the tenth anniversary of the launch of bilaterals.org. Over the past months, the bilaterals.org team has sought detailed feedback, comments and suggestions about the website to help enhance and improve it, as well as to try to build greater participation from a wider range of people concerned with bilateral free trade and investment agreements. We sincerely thank the many people who took part in our online survey, or who gave in-depth (...)
  • 9-Feb-2015
    How to publish a link
    Apart from articles (which can house any type of attachment), you can also post links on bilaterals.org. They may be links to entire websites, such as www.stop-ttip.org, or to one web page that contains good resource materials, further links, or a single document that you don’t want to reproduce on bilaterals.org. Links are found throughout bilaterals.org: Links to very specific materials are posted in the relevant sections like India negotiations or EU FTAs. Links to website that have (...)
  • 9-Feb-2015
    How to publish an article
    To publish an article, you first need to contact us to create an account. If you have already registered, you can skip this step. Click on [publish] on the top bar of the site. You will be prompted to enter the username and password that you were given. The screen will now take you inside the publishing area of bilaterals.org. Click on the [write a new article] icon as shown below. 1. The Title is the main link to your article and will appear on the homepage. Please keep it (...)
  • 9-Feb-2015
    How to subscribe to an RSS Feed
    RSS is an easy way to be notified of the latest news and updates from the site. Currently, RSS feeds are supported by most browsers except Google Chrome (although an extension is available). You can also use other services such as Feedly to subscribe to RSS feeds. Most browsers will automatically give you options for subscribing when you click on the RSS icon. Subscribe to the whole site The RSS icon can be found on the upper right hand corner of the screen. If you are navigating the (...)
  • 9-Feb-2015
    Editorial policy
    bilaterals.org operates on the principle of open publishing which enables anyone to contribute and publish their own articles, or other materials they want to share, without need for approval from an external editorial board. Any materials submitted and published are immediately displayed on the site according to the date of submission, with the latest articles at the top. People are encouraged to freely post articles relevant to the subject of the site: what’s happening with bilateral (...)
  • 9-Feb-2015
    How to participate
  • 9-Feb-2015
    Relaunch of bilaterals.org
    Welcome to the relaunch of bilaterals.org! Read more...
  • 9-Feb-2015 La Libre
    We don’t need the TTIP!
    The heads of the two main Francophone Belgian unions express their clear reservation on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
  • 8-Feb-2015 East Asia Forum
    The costs of Australia’s ‘free trade’ agreement with America
    The critics were right. Ten years after the Australia–United States free trade agreement (AUSFTA) came into force, new analysis of the data shows that the agreement diverted trade away from the lowest cost sources.
  • 7-Feb-2015 AgEconSearch
    The impact of an EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement on biofuel and feedstock markets
    We assess the impact of a potential TTIP bilateral free trade agreement on the EU and US bio-economies (feedstock, biofuels, by-products, and related competing crops) and major trade partners in these markets
  • 6-Feb-2015 Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
    The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, investor-state dispute settlement and China
    Advocates of a transatlantic investment treaty should be careful not to overstate their case and play the “China-card” as a core argument for allowing US investors to side-track EU courts.
  • 6-Feb-2015 Turkish Weekly
    Turkey to lose $5B annually if not included in TTIP agreement
    Turkey stands to lose roughly $5 billion per year in direct losses alone if it is not included in a final free trade agreement between the EU and US, Turkey’s minister for EU Affairs said Thursday.
  • 6-Feb-2015 Economic Times
    Indian, Israeli officials to meet next week on free trade pact
    Officials of India and Israel would discuss next week issues related to the proposed free trade agreement between the countries
  • 6-Feb-2015 Responsible Investor
    UN trade body meets to promote sustainability in international investment agreement regime
    The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is convening a meeting later this month in a bid to make sure that sustainability is embedded in the global country-level ‘International Investment Agreement’ (IIA) regime for cross-border investment.
  • 6-Feb-2015 METI/MOFA
    Signing of the Japan-Ukraine Investment Agreement
    Tokyo announces the signing of a bilateral investment treaty with Kiev, which it highlights as opening Ukraine farmland and mineral resources to Japanese investors.
  • 6-Feb-2015 EurActiv
    French Senate tells TTIP negotiators to ‘abolish’ ISDS
    The French Senate united on Tuesday (3 February) in its opposition to the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism (ISDS).