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TTIP: debunking the business propaganda over investor rights
The EU Commission’s plan to enshrine sweeping rights for foreign investors in the EU-US trade deal continues to draw heavy criticism. In response, industry lobby groups, law firms, and arbitrators have launched a tooth and nail defence of the business power grab. See through their propaganda with Corporate Europe Observatory’s guide to investment arbitration.
Why workers should unite against Canada's next-generation trade deals
With Canada's labour movement searching for alternative economic models for a post-crisis, climatically unstable world, the government's new trade and investment pacts are barriers to a better future and must be resisted.
Commission closes TTIP consultation -- But is it listening?
Bernadette Ségol the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation says trade unionists are “particularly concerned at statements from DG Trade implying that the consultation is about a reform of the ISDS system and is not open to a decisive rejection.”
Videos from TACD's June 25, 2014 side event on intellectual property in the US, EU trade agreement (TTIP)
A set of videos from the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue's June 25, 2014 event on intellectual property and the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement.
EU-US free trade agreement (TTIP or TAFTA)
Short video on TTIP, promoting the UK's #noTTIP day of action on 12th July 2014
European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA to start soon
Organisations from all across Europe are currently gearing up for a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) with the aim of repealing the European Union’s negotiating mandate for the Transatlantic Trade Investor Partnership (TTIP) and not concluding the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
WikiLeaks reveals global trade deal kept more secret than the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Embattled WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange announced Wednesday from London the publication of a secret draft text of the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), a controversial global trade agreement said to make it easier for corporations to make profits and operate with impunity across borders.
The European Commission must not trade off our crown jewels when negotiating the EU-US trade and investment deal
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.
UK: TTIP day of action call out
Join the day of action throughout the UK on 12 July #NoTTIP
No to ISDS!
Web tool to participate -- until 6 July 2014 -- in the EU consultation on investor-state dispute in TTIP and say NO to ISDS!