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Government ‘ignoring’ plea not to sign EU-Colombia trade deal
16-Sep-2014     Irish Examiner
Aid agencies and human rights groups want Ireland to stall on signing the EU free trade agreement with Colombia which they say will put that country’s oppressed agricultural communities in peril and undermine its fragile peace process.
Strategy conversations: From protest to proposal – Launch of alternative proposal to the global investment regime
14-Sep-2014     NJGI
‘A Call for the Building of an Alternative Legal Framework to the International Investment Treaties. Favoring the Public Interest while doing away with Transnational Corporate Impunity.’
ISDS: The devil in the trade deal
14-Sep-2014     ABC
A common provision allowing foreign investors to sue host governments has become a ticking time bomb inside trade agreements. Some countries are now refusing to agree to the provision and are questioning its legal legitimacy. Jess Hill investigates.
Outrage as EU blocks democratic challenge to US trade deal
12-Sep-2014     Politics
The European Commission's decision to block a citizens' initiative to challenge the secret trade talks it is holding with the US government is a slap in the face for the 230 civil society organisations that have lined up behind the initiative and the millions of European citizens they represent.
Harper OKs Canada-China foreign investment deal after lengthy delay
12-Sep-2014     CBC
Sources tell CBC the federal government will quietly announce it is ratifying the investment treaty later this afternoon.
How Greens in one German state threaten Euro-Canada trade deal
12-Sep-2014     The Tyee
The survival of the new trade deal hammered out in secret between Canada and the European Union is threatened by opposed Green politicians in Germany's most populated state, writes Andrea Rexer.
Bilateral Investment Treaties: What they are and why they matter
12-Sep-2014     China Briefing
The US-China Business Council, a corporate lobby group, outlines what a US-China BIT might amount to.
EU-Canada FTA (CETA) (complete leak, 11 Sep 2014)
11-Sep-2014     Netzpolitik
EU Commission wants to wipe out citizens' involvement in TTIP and CETA
11-Sep-2014     Stop TTIP
European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP rejected / Alliance announces resistance
Businesses believe APEC’s free trade agreement will bring few benefits
11-Sep-2014     VietnamNet
The proposed APEC free trade agreement (FTAAP) is expected to be on a larger scale than the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, but many Vietnamese businesses are not enthusiastic about the trade pact.