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TPP: Integration or finance and profit?
14-Apr-2016     La República
The last ten years have left in our America important elements for reflecting on continental integration, and respecting the recent agreement of the Transpacific Economic Partnership (TPP), which has 12 state parties.
Obedience: Hereafter, the US will have the final word on European laws!
14-Apr-2016     Economie Matin
Freedom – it is the ability to collectively choose our destiny. Liberty, by definition, can only be conceived and expressed within a framework that respects sovereignty.
Peru – The TPP quandary and access to medicines
14-Apr-2016     El Comercio
Signing the TPP has provoked a debate on whether, when it comes into force, there will be a potential spike in medicines prices.
Costa Rica’s request to terminate Infinito Gold’s ICSID claim: brief reflections
14-Apr-2016     Rebelión
On 24 July 2015, Costa Rica requested the termination of the arbitral proceedings that the Canadian Mining company, Infinito Gold filed with the Centre for the Settlement of Disputes between Foreign Investors and States.
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.
We oppose the negotiations of the EU-Mercosur FTA going forward
14-Apr-2016     CADTM
We, ATTAC Argentina, members of the CADTM – AYNA network, express our opposition to the negotiations, recently relaunched by the Mauricio Macri government, to sign a Free Trade Treaty (FTA) between the countries of Mercosur and the European Union.
France will drive the FTA with Mercosur but will protect agriculture
14-Apr-2016     El Observador
The French President, François Hollande, showed that he was politically in sync with the presidents of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez, and Argentina, Mauricio Macri, and opened dialogue on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that Mercosur and the European Union are negotiating.
Mercosur and Unasur establish a platform for the joint purchase of medicines
14-Apr-2016     Nodal
The historic decision to break barriers to improve access to costly medicines was taken during the “First Extraordinary Meeting of the Ministers of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur).
The Mexican FTA that Macri wants for Argentina
14-Apr-2016     IADE
The tale of a disaster waiting to happen? Mauricio Macri promised to open up to imports. And there is no doubt that he will do this.
The transatlantic free trade treaty: the climate’s enemy
14-Apr-2016     Reporterre
Threats against environmental directives, legal arbitration against States, the growth of trade generating CO2… while discussions between the United States and the European Union continue, the author of this article demonstrates that this treaty is incompatible with the Paris Agreement on Climate.