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TTIP
Multinationals will have wide-ranging powers to sue EU states that enact health or environmental laws breaching their "legitimate expectations" of profit, according to a leaked ‘investment chapter’ from the Canada-EU free trade agreement. A separate ‘nature and scope’ document for EU-US free trade talks, which EurActiv has seen, makes clear that similar parameters are foreseen for TTIP.
EU shows it's keenness for TTIP by offering to lift nearly all tariffs on goods imported from the US.
New report from the Heinrich Boell Foundation reviews the implications of an investor-state dispute settlement provision in TTIP for environmental policies and standards
CEO has put English subtitles to two excellent media reports on TTIP that were shown on German public TV in the previous months.
There is mounting opposition among members of Germany's black-red Grand Coalition Government to the planned Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and the US.
On 31 January, there was a stern warning from Elmar Brok, chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, that the United States must move quicker on joint data protection standards to avoid failure of the bilateral talks between the EU and the US.
Please sign on to this German petition against TTIP/TAFTA before 24 Feb 2013
President Obama's hopes that the Fast Track mechanism would go through congress have met opposition from leading Congress Democrat, Harry Reid.
Last Monday the Commission launched a special Advisory Group of experts representing a broad range of interests, from environmental, health, consumer and workers' interests to different business sectors to provide EU trade negotiators with high quality advice in the areas being negotiated in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks.
Peter van Ham, senior research fellow at the Dutch Clingendael Institute, thinks that TTIP could have an overwhelming standard-setting power for other countries.
