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23-May-2014 DW
’TTIP serves the major corporations’
The TTIP trade agreement between the US and the EU is continuing to cause a major row in Europe. Economist Christoph Scherrer tells DW that the corporations’ right to file lawsuits will be particularly problematic. -
23-May-2014 PSI
ITUC delegates give a resounding “No” to Trans Pacific Partnership
In a poll taken at the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Congress in Berlin, Germany, 90% of the voters overwhelmingly rejected the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade deal, supporting the statement that “the TPP should not go ahead and must be scrapped.” -
22-May-2014 Agriland
European Milk Board rejects TTIP agreement
European milk producers are calling for the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement negotiations between the USA and the EU "to cease immediately." -
22-May-2014 Dawn
Trade experts see nothing concrete in Pak-US action plan
The Joint Action Plan signed last week by Pakistan and the US in Washington under Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (Tifa) is more of a goodwill gesture than anything concrete that can benefit the country, according to experts. -
22-May-2014 Huffington Post
Leaked memo: Trade agreement would export fracked gas without restrictions from US to EU
The EU’s ideas for free trade in energy with the US would be a frontal assault on the possibility for governments to impose a "public service obligation," requiring utility companies to deliver natural gas at certain prices to consumers, for example. -
22-May-2014 Channels Television
Nigerian lawmakers consider EU’s economic partnership proposal
Nigeria’s House of Representatives has invited the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment to brief it on details of the EU’s proposed Economic Partnership Agreement and present the worst case scenario should Nigeria refuse to sign it. -
22-May-2014
TTIP must work for the people, or it won’t work at all
Leaders of the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations and the European Trade Union Confederation today call for a "gold standard" EU-US trade deal that improves living and working conditions on both sides of the Atlantic. -
21-May-2014 IUF
No to trade deals that threaten democracy!
A new publication from the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) exposes the corporate power grab at the core of two mega-treaties: TPP and TTIP -
21-May-2014 Citizens Trade
Groups warn US-EU deal threatens important safeguards
A wide range of US consumer, family farm, environmental, Internet freedom, labor and other organizations gathered outside a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) negotiating summit today in order to expose the pact as more about deregulation than “trade” -
21-May-2014
People, environment and democracy before profit and corporate rights
Joint statement of European civil society groups working against the TTIP threat, May 2014 -
21-May-2014 Canadian Press
NDP: Harper gov’t report on human rights abuses in Colombia is a ’sham’
The New Democratic Party and civil society groups are accusing the Harper government of whitewashing human rights abuses in Colombia in the latest report to Parliament on the impact of Canada’s free trade agreement with the South American country. -
21-May-2014 Gozo News
TTIP discussed in Malta: What is the position of Maltese EP candidates? – NGOs
In relation to a seminar organised by the US Embassy and the American Chamber of Commerce in Malta, Leftist NGOs asked Maltese MEP candidates to state whether they disapprove of the TTIP process. -
21-May-2014 Greens/EFA
Who is lying, Commissioner De Gucht?
Targeting the Greens might play well with some business leaders in Brussels, but you have hundreds of civil society groups to answer to, too.
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21-May-2014 AFP
No deadline for TPP trade talks
Asia-Pacific trade ministers say they will intensify talks on a vast trans-Pacific free trade agreement but are offering no clue on when a final accord might be reached. -
21-May-2014 Business Standard
BIPAs not serving India’s interest: Commerce Ministry
Worried over frequent invocation of investment protection pacts by MNCs, the Commerce and Industry Ministry is in favour of gradually phasing them out saying that they hurt India’s interest. -
20-May-2014 IATP
10 reasons TTIP is bad for good food and farming
Agribusiness on both sides is pushing to rollback regulations that hinder their profits at the expense of food safety, farmers and ranchers, consumers and animal welfare. -
20-May-2014 Fresh Fruit Portal
Colombia seeks to double agricultural land in five years
The Colombian government has set an ambitious goal to double the country’s agricultural land in half a decade, starting from 2015, to make the most of free trade agreements (FTA) signed with countries around the world, particularly the United States. -
19-May-2014 EurActiv
De Gucht, NGOs, trade accusations after anti-TTIP protestors ’kettled’ by police
NGOs and trade unions today (19 May) hit back at accusations they were spreading lies on social media about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), as it emerged that Brussels Police used controversial “kettling” techniques and water cannon on protestors outside the European Business Summit. -
19-May-2014 Huffington Post
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - Raw materials and energy (EU negotiating text, Sep 2013)
Dated 20 September 2013, leaked by Huffington Post on 19 May 2014. See Wikipedia analysis here. -
19-May-2014 Sierra Club
Leaked energy text exposes trade with European Union endangers action on climate
A draft negotiating text of energy provisions in the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and the European Union was leaked online today, just as the fifth round of negotiations began in Washington, DC.