European Union
9-Nov-2016
EurActiv
As trade negotiators seek to wrap up the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), the EU seems to have abandoned the objective of promoting human rights, notably freedom of speech.
8-Nov-2016
Vieuws
The move follows the Commission’s pledge from last year to “start work, together with other countries, on setting up a permanent International Investment Court.”
8-Nov-2016
The Tyee
Parliamentary committee plans to freeze out critical input from Canadians.
8-Nov-2016
Bloomberg
Negotiators working to increase market access for services are beginning to question whether the European Union is capable of forging a multi-trillion dollar services agreement.
8-Nov-2016
All Africa
The Economic Partnership Agreement between East African Community and European Union is 'a raw deal', an independent team tasked to examine the trade deal has warned.
7-Nov-2016
Reuters
Vietnam's Free Trade Agreement with the European Union and the Trans Pacific Partnership would collectively give China access to markets worth $44 trillion in combined gross domestic product.
7-Nov-2016
Vanguard
The Economic Community of West Africa States ECOWAS,’ farmers have called on African leaders to resist the pressure being put on them by the European Union to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement.
4-Nov-2016
Vieuws
The negotiations towards a “reasonable and balanced free trade agreement with the US” part of the trade-related section of the Commission Work Programme for 2017.
4-Nov-2016
EurActiv
Dutch group very similar to the one which organised the referendum that blocked the EU-Ukraine association agreement has already collected over 190,000 signatures for blocking the ratification of CETA, the EU-Canada trade deal.
3-Nov-2016
Bordelex
Once a desirable form of European international relations endorsed by the Commission, Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) became a problematic issue after the accession of former socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union, and with the emergence of the first intra-EU investment arbitration – ISDS – cases.