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EU-Mercosur and EU-Mexico: Stop making farmers and agricultural workers pay for your deals!
8-Sep-2025     European Coordination Via Campesina
Farmers from across several countries, together with a broad coalition of around 40 trade unions and civil society organisations, united in action to deliver a clear and urgent message: the EU-Mercosur and EU-Mexico free trade agreements must not, and will not pass.
Building momentum for an alternative global trade framework grounded in food sovereignty
5-Sep-2025     La Via Campesina
Through years of internal consultations, the movement has developed a set of initial proposals, which she presented with an invitation for broader input and collaboration.
ECVC analysis of the EU-US trade deal: The European agri-food sector will bear the huge economic and social costs of the deal, as the burden of US debt is shifted to EU farmers
5-Sep-2025     European Coordination Via Campesina
The European agri-food sector will bear the huge economic and social costs of the deal, as the burden of US debt is shifted to EU farmers.
Adoption of EU-Mercosur: a democratic hijack
4-Sep-2025     Friends of the Earth Europe
Friends of the Earth Europe calls on Member States and the European Parliament to vote no to the ratification of the toxic EU-Mercosur deal.
The French state before an arbitration tribunal over “Montagne d’Or”
4-Sep-2025     Veblen Institute
The French state is being sued by two Russian investment companies (controlled by a sanctioned oligarch), in connection with the “Montagne d’Or” mining megaproject in French Guiana.
Battling for farmers' seed systems: UPOV 91 and trade agreements
4-Sep-2025     IATP
A IATP report on on how the U.S. and its seeds companies use free trade agreements to undermine the policy space available for farmers to save, use, exchange, and sell farm-saved seeds.
Open letter on why India must not give in to US tariff blackmail
4-Sep-2025     Focus on the Global South
The Forum for Trade Justice warns the US-India FTA is less about fair trade and more about economic subjugation, urging India to defend its long-term development, ecological security, and global multipolar standing by rejecting coercive terms and ensuring inclusive, parliamentary-level scrutiny.
ECVC joins the 4 September demonstration in Brussels! Farmers refuse to foot the bill: Stop EU-Mercosur, Stop EU-US, Stop CAP’s dismantling!
3-Sep-2025     European Coordination Via Campesina
ECVC farmers from Belgian, France, Germany, and the Netherlands will join civil society actors this Thursday at 5pm in Place du Luxembourg in Brussels to call for an end to the EU-Mercosur FTA.
Te Taiao and climate crisis
1-Sep-2025     Ngā Toki Whakarururanga
Recent agreements (negotiated in secret) also guarantee foreign corporations the rights to lobby against new laws in the name of “transparency”; guaranteed rights that iwi and hapū don’t have.
EU-US trade plans revive a monster from the dead
1-Sep-2025     Friends of the Earth Europe
The ‘framework agreement’ on trade between the EU and the US that was published August 21 is a worrying reminiscence of the infamous TTIP -the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership- of a decade ago.