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8-Oct-2014 Counter Punch
CETA and climate change: Why the new Euro-Canada treaty is a gift to oil firms
Short of an international treaty banning all government regulations outright, CETA gives the oil and gas industry virtually everything it has been asking for, for decades. -
8-Oct-2014 News Weekly
Critical China free trade agreement based on what?
How can the government of Australia evaluate gains to agriculture from a China free trade agreement if it uses flawed statistical calculations? -
7-Oct-2014 CBC
European Union drops plan to label oilsands crude ’dirty’
The European Union has backed off a plan to label oil from Alberta’s oilsands as dirtier than other oils and to make it harder to import. -
7-Oct-2014 CBC
Free flight for EU leaders not needed, German official says
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s offer of a free ride home for visiting European leaders — at a cost of more than $300,000 — is raising eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic. -
7-Oct-2014 The Nation
Can China and Russia squeeze Washington out of Eurasia?
There could soon be a trade alliance between Beijing, Moscow and Berlin—but you wouldn’t know it from the triumphal tone in Washington. -
7-Oct-2014 Global Research
War, neoliberal fundamentalism and the plundering of national economies
The real threats to ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’, ‘decency’ and ‘fairness’ do not lie in Syria or Iraq. The destruction of national sovereignty, democracy, freedom, decency, quality of life and livelihoods is being carried out by corporate vultures under the guise of the secular theology of neoliberalism, not least in practice via free trade and investor rights agreements. -
6-Oct-2014 Washington Post
The trade clause that overrules governments
The Obama administration’s insistence on ISDS may please Wall Street, but it threatens to undermine some of the president’s landmark achievements in curbing pollution and fighting global warming. -
6-Oct-2014 TUC
TUC 2014 Congress resolution on TTIP
Resolution of the Trades Union Congree of the UK -
6-Oct-2014 Jakarta Post
Appointment of first EU envoy to ASEAN will boost ties
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht has said the EU-ASEAN free trade agreement negotiations could be revived once the ASEAN Economic Community is in place (end 2015). -
6-Oct-2014 Jiji Press
TPP ministerial talks set for Oct. 25-27 in Sydney
The 12 countries aim to break the impasse for an envisioned broad accord in November. -
6-Oct-2014 Yonhap
S. Korea’s biz community sets up consultative group on China FTA
South Korea’s business community has set up a consultative group aimed at reflecting their interests in ongoing free trade agreement (FTA) talks with China. -
6-Oct-2014 The Conversation
Bar set low for a ‘do no harm’ China-Australia FTA
The excitement behind the likely conclusion of an agreement — the speculation is a grand signing will take place in mid-November when President Xi Jinping will be in Brisbane for the G20 meeting — will exceed the actual significance of such an agreement. -
6-Oct-2014 The Conversation
Make no mistake, the TTIP is a move in the wrong direction
While it would be wrong to say that the TTIP will lead to the wholesale privatisation of public services, it would potentially constrain governments’ ability to reverse past policy decisions to open up public services to competition as this would become a treaty-based commitment. -
5-Oct-2014 Marianne
TAFTA: the myth of job creation
While the seventh round of negotiations on the transatlantic treaty commenced on Monday near Washington, Marianne interviewed the economist Thomas Porcher on job creation. -
5-Oct-2014 Newfoundland and Labrador Independent
The threat of CETA: trade, investment and workers’ rights
The CETA will give private European companies the right to bid on Canadian government tenders for goods and services — among them schools, hospitals, airports, public transit, ports, and hydro projects — down to the municipal level. -
5-Oct-2014 Xinhua
EU hopes EPA with Kenya to be concluded by end of October
"The EAC and the EU will set a new date to finalize the trade talks," an EU official told a news conference in Nairobi on Friday. -
4-Oct-2014 Reuters
Pacific trade pact hindered by secrecy in US-Japan talks: Chile
Secrecy about trade negotiations between the United States and Japan is hampering progress on a broader Pacific trade pact, a senior Chilean official said on Friday. -
4-Oct-2014 The Star
EU official says no deal so far on export trade talks
East African states are yet to strike a trade deal on the Economic Partnership Agreement after the European Union said the proposals made by the council of ministers were inadequate. -
4-Oct-2014 Gulf News
GCC builds up its Asia strategy
MoU with South Korea can be leveraged into something significant, including a free trade agreement -
4-Oct-2014 Chemical Watch
TTIP chief negotiators address regulatory concerns
When it comes to chemical regulations, there will be no harmonisation, just cooperation, the TTIP negotiators say.