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Brussels 13 Mar 2014 - Rally against TTIP negociations - Join us!
11-Mar-2014     Alliance D19-20
Rally in front of DG Trade, Brussels, against TTIP negociations: Thursday March 13 2014, 10AM. The event is organised by D19/20, Alter Summit, Blockupy Europe*, S2B Network and Attac TTIP.
EU-PH FTA must be comprehensive – UK
11-Mar-2014     Manila Bulletin
The British government would like the proposed EU-Philippines free trade agreement to be a comprehensive one with very few exceptions.
What does the TTIP really mean for workers?
11-Mar-2014     Equal Times
As public awareness increases about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), an EU-US trade deal being negotiated behind closed doors, so too do concerns about its potential impact.
S.Korea, Canada wrap up free-trade deal
11-Mar-2014     AFP
South Korea and Canada concluded a free-trade agreement Tuesday, wrapping up a negotiating process that began nine years ago and focused on barriers in the auto and agriculture sectors.
Give and take in the EU-US trade deal? Sure. We give, the corporations take
10-Mar-2014     The Guardian
George Monbiot asks why businesses have got more access to the negociations than citizens and their representative organisations have and sets down some challenges to the architects of TTIP.
Chemical industry secretly manipulating US-EU trade negotiations (TTIP)
10-Mar-2014     CIEL
A report published today by ClientEarth and CIEL shows that a leaked proposal from lobby groups, the American Chemistry Council and the European Chemical Industry Council, to the US-EU trade negotiations would damage future protective legislation on toxic chemicals.
EU-Vietnam Free Trade agreement must protect human rights and be preceded by a human rights impact assessment
10-Mar-2014     FIDH
The European Parliament will vote a resolution on “the state of play in the EU-Vietnam Free Trade agreement”. While not having a legislative aim at this stage, it represents an important opportunity for the EP to formulate the human rights safeguards that will ensure its latter consent, say FIDH in this open letter to MEPs.
Profiting from crisis: How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries
10-Mar-2014     TNI
Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries.
Companies must not get more rights than people in EU-US trade deal
10-Mar-2014     FOEE
A new round of talks between the EU and US on a transatlantic trade agreement opens today in Brussels amid growing public concern and opposition.
Stephen Harper heads to South Korea to ink long-awaited free-trade pact
9-Mar-2014    
Prime Minister Stephen Harper departed Sunday for South Korea, widely expected to complete another long round of free-trade negotiations that his critics were denouncing as secretive and potentially bad for Canadian workers.