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TTIP must work for the people, or it won’t work at all
22-May-2014    
Leaders of the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations and the European Trade Union Confederation today call for a "gold standard" EU-US trade deal that improves living and working conditions on both sides of the Atlantic.
No to trade deals that threaten democracy!
21-May-2014     IUF
A new publication from the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) exposes the corporate power grab at the core of two mega-treaties: TPP and TTIP
Groups warn US-EU deal threatens important safeguards
21-May-2014     Citizens Trade
A wide range of US consumer, family farm, environmental, Internet freedom, labor and other organizations gathered outside a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) negotiating summit today in order to expose the pact as more about deregulation than “trade”
People, environment and democracy before profit and corporate rights
21-May-2014    
Joint statement of European civil society groups working against the TTIP threat, May 2014
NDP: Harper gov't report on human rights abuses in Colombia is a 'sham'
21-May-2014     Canadian Press
The New Democratic Party and civil society groups are accusing the Harper government of whitewashing human rights abuses in Colombia in the latest report to Parliament on the impact of Canada's free trade agreement with the South American country.
TTIP discussed in Malta: What is the position of Maltese EP candidates? – NGOs
21-May-2014     Gozo News
In relation to a seminar organised by the US Embassy and the American Chamber of Commerce in Malta, Leftist NGOs asked Maltese MEP candidates to state whether they disapprove of the TTIP process.
Who is lying, Commissioner De Gucht?
21-May-2014     Greens/EFA
Targeting the Greens might play well with some business leaders in Brussels, but you have hundreds of civil society groups to answer to, too.
No deadline for TPP trade talks
21-May-2014     AFP
Asia-Pacific trade ministers say they will intensify talks on a vast trans-Pacific free trade agreement but are offering no clue on when a final accord might be reached.
BIPAs not serving India's interest: Commerce Ministry
21-May-2014     Business Standard
Worried over frequent invocation of investment protection pacts by MNCs, the Commerce and Industry Ministry is in favour of gradually phasing them out saying that they hurt India's interest.
10 reasons TTIP is bad for good food and farming
20-May-2014     IATP
Agribusiness on both sides is pushing to rollback regulations that hinder their profits at the expense of food safety, farmers and ranchers, consumers and animal welfare.