ISDS Case Map
TTIP
A leaked draft of what the European Union wants excluded from a new trade deal with the United States has been obtained by the BBC.
The European Parliament's development committee calls on the Commission to make an independent study of TTIP's impact on developing countries “once the provisions of TTIP are clearer”.
Support for the TTIP free trade agreement with the US is waning further among Germany's Social Democrats, DW reports
The EU’s trade chief, Cecilia Malmstrom, said Monday that Turkey has “legitimate” concerns over the ongoing EU-US free trade talks and promised to keep Ankara informed on almost every step during the negotiations.
Rather than abandoning completely the TTIP/TAFTA negotiations (and their little cousin CETA, an agreement between Canada and the EU) which is what a good part of civil society are calling for, the European Left wants to thoroughly reform this arbitral mechanism to limits its abuses.
US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack shared the stage with his counterpart EU commissioner Phil Hogan at the US Department of Agriculture's annual Outlook Forum and discussed TTIP.
Two members of the US Congress have introduced a bill that would turn a giant trade deal between the EU and US into a devastating weapon against the people of Palestine and all those seeking justice alongside them.
This meeting will enable us to improve the coordination of our European network and study its joint strategy in 2015, a year in which the TTIP/CETA/TISA/ISDS will be on the political agenda throughout much of Europe.
The corporate media would prefer that people know nothing about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and other trade deals.
While benefits of TTIP to big business are clear, SMEs seem set to lose out, reports SME Insider.
