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Focus on: TTIP leaks & official docs

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Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA
12-Oct-2015 CEO
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector.
’We can’t protect every sausage,’ says German agriculture minister over TTIP deal
5-Jan-2015 Deutsche Welle
Germany’s Minister of Agriculture, Christian Schmidt, says some German specialties may be stripped of their regional protection due to a free-trade deal with the US.
2019: USTR takes aim at European countries over pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies
4-Apr-2019 KEI
In its latest report on foreign trade barriers, the USTR, prompted by the pharmaceutical industry, takes aim at the pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in the European Union.
A TTIP Christmas wish
27-Dec-2013 IPtegrity
The European authorities want industry to come up with a counter-narrative to civil society in what would appear to be fear of an ACTA protest Mk2. This was revealed in a cosy Brussels soirée held at the American Chamber of Commerce to discuss the intellectual property content of the EU-US trade agreement known as TTIP.
All 56 SNP MPs sign motion expressing major concerns about TTIP
28-Sep-2015 The National
Campaigners against the big-business deal TTIP have welcomed the signing of a Commons motion raising major concerns about it by all 56 SNP MPs.
Anger as government blocks TTIP legal documents relating to health service
27-Jan-2016 The Guardian
Business secretary refuses to disclose advice that could show how private health firms might sue government under US-Europe trade deal.
Australia tobacco clash reverberates in EU trade talks
4-Jan-2016 Politico
The inclusion of an ISDS in an EU agreement could raise the likelihood of such cases being brought against all kinds of public interest and health protecting policies in the future.
Big Pharma lobbying in TTIP: Bad news for patients
28-Sep-2016 Corporate Europe Observatory
Big Pharma is everything but shy when it comes to lobbying EU policy-makers. But what exactly are these groups lobbying for in TTIP?
Calls to ban toxic chemicals fall on deaf ears around the world
31-Oct-2014 Newsweek
“If TTIP is passed along the lines that have been released so far, the EU’s endocrine disrupting chemicals regulations would be postponed even further or completely derailed,” says David Azoulay, an attorney at the Centre for International Environmental Law.
Chemical industry using TTIP ‘to attack the precautionary principal’
27-Aug-2014 Chemical Watch
The last 12 months have seen a surge of attacks against the EU’s precautionary principle, with some law firms considering it a potential obstacle to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Chicken safety fear as chlorine washing fails bacteria tests
28-May-2018 The Guardian
British microbiologists find that American technique at heart of Brexit trade row does not kill listeria and salmonella
Civil society statement – No copyright in the EU-US trade agreement!
19-Mar-2013 Infojustice
"From a democratic perspective, we believe that important rules governing technology, health, and culture should be debated in the US Congress, the European Parliament, national parliaments, and other transparent forums where all stakeholders can be heard—not in closed negotiations that give privileged access to corporate insiders."
Consumer groups worry US-EU trade pact will weaken health, privacy regulations
30-May-2013 Euronews
US consumer groups raised concerns on Wednesday about the proposed free trade agreement between the US and the EU, which they said could weaken government health, environmental and food safety regulations and undermine privacy on the Internet.
Cornish pasty ’at risk’ from EU-US trade deal
7-Jan-2015 The Independent
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could mean that the EU may not be able to uphold laws that protect regional foods
Cut NHS from trade deal say doctors
24-Jun-2015 Herald Scotland
Doctors attending the British Medical Association’s (BMA) annual representative meeting in Liverpool have voted overwhelmingly to urge the Government to remove health and social care services from a controversial trade agreement between the EU and US
Data flow in trade agreements
16-Nov-2016 French Government
The French Government calls on the European Commission to adopt an open and innovation-friendly data flow system while preserving European interests in trade agreements
Data flows in TTIP
9-Aug-2015 BEUC
Data flows in TTIP could result in a significant weakening of consumers’ fundamental rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data
Did TTIP push the EU to scrap precaution on endocrine disruptors?
22-Aug-2016 BEUC
In June, the European Commission broke its promise that it will not trade away the ’precautionary principle’ to strike a trade deal with the United States, BEUC reports.
Don’t cry over dead trade agreements
14-Dec-2016 Live Mint
If we can manage our own economies well, new trade pacts will become largely redundant.
ECJ judgment in favour of data protection puts TTIP negotiations under pressure
7-Oct-2015 Euractiv
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today declared the Safe Harbor agreement invalid. This subordinates the activities of Facebook & Co back to the control of national data protection authorities.