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Focus on: TTIP leaks & official docs

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The European Commission must not trade off our crown jewels when negotiating the EU-US trade and investment deal
19-Jun-2014 EPHA
SOLIDAR, the Social Platform, EPSU and EPHA are jointly calling on the European Commission to explicitly exclude public services, including social and health services, from the ongoing TTIP negotiations.
The grapes of wrath
5-Jan-2015 Washington Post Magazine
The US is among very few countries that allow the Champagne name to be used on wine not from Champagne, France. TTIP may change that.
The major obstacles to the EU-US free trade deal
12-Jul-2013 Public Service Europe
Topics where EU and US politicians and stakeholders’ interests clash — such as public procurement, data protection, financial services and agricultural issues like geographical indicators and sanitary and phytosanitary measures – will prove the most problematic during talks.
The predators behind the TPP
8-Feb-2016 The Japan Times
Powerful corporations have been allowed to swallow the state; they have created a “predator state,” which they naturally exploit for their own expansion.
The proposed EU-US free trade agreement and the NHS
20-Sep-2013 International Viewpoint
This treaty, if passed, would represent an enormous challenge to public-owned health services across Europe.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and UK healthcare
12-Nov-2014 The BMJ
It is only now, in the context of EU-US negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), that the health implications of free trade agreements have become a front line political concern in the UK.
The TTIP and the privitization of health
1-Jul-2016 Noticias de Gipuskoa
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Treaty (TTIP) may present a genuine threat to health and to the outcomes we have reached in the healthcare systems today.
The TTIP: serious consequences for public health
14-Apr-2016 Nueva Tribuna
Private arbitral tribunals will be able to impose multi-million fines on States whose parliaments have dared to legislate without taking into account corporate expectations.
Toxic trade deal: Friends of the Earth decries industry efforts to weaken regulation of chemicals associated with breast cancer, autism, infertility
26-Jul-2013 FOE
Statements made at a US government hearing by the American Chemistry Council, the trade association of multinational chemical companies lobbying for the US-EU trade deal, highlight the risks to public health, report Friends of the Earth
Trade and privacy: complicated bedfellows?
18-Nov-2016 Institute for Information Law
How to achieve data protection-proof free trade agreements?
Trade deal could put Big Tobacco’s interests before public health
20-Aug-2015 Irish Independent
The tobacco industry has deep pockets. The industry uses its profits to resist measures being taken by governments all across the world to cut smoking and deaths from smoking.
TTIP and the big pharma wish-list
24-Mar-2014 Commons Network
A report by the Commons Network and civil society partners shows that the pharmaceutical industry’s wish list for the TTIP is detrimental for public health, will increase the cost of medicines and undermines democratic processes
TTIP chief negotiators address regulatory concerns
4-Oct-2014 Chemical Watch
When it comes to chemical regulations, there will be no harmonisation, just cooperation, the TTIP negotiators say.
TTIP controversy: The European Commission and Big Tobacco accused of cover-up after heavily redacted documents released
27-Aug-2015 The Independent
Documents back up fears that TTIP will allow tobacco giants to take legal action against the UK and other European governments who attempt to tighten smoking legislation
TTIP must not allow companies to sue EU countries for environmental laws, say MPs
10-Mar-2015 The Guardian
A major free trade deal should not allow US companies to sue European nations when they pass environmental laws that hurt their profits, MPs in the UK said on Tuesday.
TTIP poised to gut US states’ ability to protect on toxic chemicals
23-Sep-2015 CIEL
EU proposals for EU-US trade deal threaten democratic process for protecting people and the environment
TTIP protest takes to the streets
3-Aug-2015 Western Telegraph
Healthcare protesters People’s NHS Wales lined several streets in Haverfordwest with placards in their latest bid to highlight concerns over what the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) could mean for our health service.
TTIP will damage public health and climate, says official report
16-May-2016 War on Want
The controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will have negative effects on public health, jobs and the climate, according to the official impact assessment.
TTIP: Data is the elephant in the room
24-Sep-2013 Euractiv
Data protection issues have been cut out of the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, but rivalry between the two trade blocs in the critical booming sector threatens to spoil any deal.
TTIP: Health sector braced for ’damage control’
7-Oct-2013 Euractiv
While EU-US trade talks are expected to generate great economic benefits on both sides of the Atlantic, the impact of a trade agreement on the EU’s healthcare systems will surely be negative, experts warn.