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8-May-2014 GNA
FSG calls on President to reject EPA
Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG), a body against genetically modified foods, has called on the Mahama Administration to reject the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) as it stands. -
8-May-2014 Live Mint
Vodafone initiates investment arbitration against India
Vodafone Group Plc has abandoned the conciliation process and started international investment arbitration against the Indian government over its long-running tax dispute. -
8-May-2014 Colombia Reports
Over 120 injured in agrarian strikes: Interior Ministry
Colombian authorities have announced that 61 policemen and 66 farmers have been injured as a result of recent confrontations during the ongoing nationwide agrarian strikes adding that they do not know who is using weapons. -
8-May-2014 Press TV
Germans hold demo against US-EU free trade deal
Under the motto: "Civil society against the corporate-deal," members of more than 60 non governmental organizations demonstrate in Berlin against the free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States.
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8-May-2014 Stabroek News
Canada knocks CARICOM ‘lack of ambition’ in trade talks
Less than two months remain to the agreed deadline for the conclusion of talks on a free-trade agreement between CARICOM and Canada, and the tensions are showing. -
7-May-2014 Colombia Reports
Colombia’s rural strikes expand as leftists, minorities and more farmers join
One of Colombia’s largest leftist collective, farmers, indigenous people and Afro-Colombians, united in the so-called Agrarian Summit (Cumbre Agraria Campesina Etnica y Popular) has joined ongoing strikes carried out by farmers, miners and truckers in Colombia’s countryside. -
7-May-2014 CCTV
CCTV: Colombian farmers on strike
Farmers and their supporters in Colombia are protesting the so-called free trade agreements that would likely eliminate their livelihoods
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7-May-2014 ETUC
[ETUC] Canada-EU trade deal: Trojan horse for contested ISDS?
The EU-Canada trade agreement – which may be concluded on May 8 at the Foreign Affairs Council – should not be used as a ‘Trojan horse’ to smuggle in a controversial Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) warned the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). -
6-May-2014 Agencia Venezolana de Noticias
The current economic crisis presents an opportunity for Latin American Integration
The global financial crisis which persists since 2008 and chiefly impacts the United States and Europe presents an opportunity for Latin America to strengthen its internal markets and develop an integrated economy, says Faustino Cobarrubia, an expert at the Centre for Research on the Global Economy (CIEM), Cuba. -
6-May-2014 Thanh Nien News
Vietnam’s exports to ASEAN reduce despite free trade agreement
Vietnam’s exports to its ASEAN partners have fallen despite the free trade agreement inked in 2010. -
6-May-2014 AP
Germany dubious on investor rules in US trade pact
Germany’s vice chancellor is underlining doubts about the need for new investment rules in a proposed European Union-U.S. trade deal — a thorny issue in the talks. -
6-May-2014 rabble.ca
Text of Canada-EU trade agreement could be finalized by May 7
iPolitics reports, "The text of the Canada-EU trade agreement is expected to be finalized May 7, according to a letter posted on a Dutch government website -
5-May-2014 Reuters
Japan meets most conditions for ’vital’ EU trade talks: documents
The European Union will tell Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday that Brussels is broadly satisfied with Japan’s progress in negotiations towards an ambitious free-trade deal, likely allowing talks to continue, according to EU documents. -
5-May-2014 Les Inrocks
En Paca, la fronde anti Tafta s’organise
En France, la fronde s’organise principalement autour du Front de Gauche (FDG) et d’Europe-Ecologie-Les Verts (EE-LV) qui ont d’ailleurs décidé de placer leur combat contre Tafta au coeur de leur campagne des européennes -
5-May-2014 TruthOut
In Colombia, free trade brings more poverty and more killings
Colombian unions and farmers opposed the free trade agreement strongly, and today hold it responsible for increasing poverty while fostering a climate in which corporate rights are paramount and labor rights hardly exist. -
3-May-2014
Unseen side of TPP talks
Japan-U.S. bilateral negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership multinational free trade agreement have overcome their largest remaining hurdle, with a substantive agreement reached after renewed talks held in tandem with U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Japan from April 23 to 25. -
2-May-2014
TPP deal on cards this month: Bollard
It is possible a Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal will be thrashed out by the end of the month, says Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) executive director Alan Bollard. -
2-May-2014
Minister hints at FTA with Japan
Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan on Wednesday said that negotiations on signing of a free trade agreement with Japan were progressing. -
1-May-2014 Common Dreams
Agrarian uprising against free trade and ’government lies’ sweeps Colombia
Agrarian strikes, protests, and road blockades are sweeping Colombia this week as peasants voice outrage at the "free trade" policies, backed by the Colombian government, that they say are exacerbating the country’s crisis of rural poverty. -
30-Apr-2014
FTA btw China, Switzerland to enter into force in July
The free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Switzerland will enter into force on July 1 with internal approval procedures completed, the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) said on Wednesday.