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EU-Latin America summit will be an environmental car crash
13-Jul-2023     EU Observer
Civil society organisations, indigenous and social movements across Latin America are already mobilising to raise their voices during the summit against these harmful trade deals.
NZ-EU Free Trade Agreement falls short on Te Tiriti
11-Jul-2023     Ngā Toki Whakarururanga
The NZ EU FTA does not promote and protect the rights, interests, duties and responsibilities of Māori in a Te Tiriti-compliant manner and offers minimal, if any, concrete economic benefits to Māori businesses and workers.
Joint letter: Energy Ministers must support a coordinated withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty
11-Jul-2023     CAN Europe
We call on you to support the Commission’s proposal for a coordinated withdrawal of the EU and all its member states from the Energy Charter Treaty and welcome a discussion of the ECT among energy ministers.
Civil society calls for release of IPEF pillar 2 agreement and current texts
10-Jul-2023     AFTINET
Civil society organizations, legislative bodies, and the people of potential IPEF countries must immediately be given ongoing access to the negotiating texts to enable them to help formulate positions and comment on draft proposals throughout the course of the remaining negotiations.
Decoding the IPEF
5-Jul-2023     Third World Network
IPEF is designed by the US for its own prosperity, with developing countries unlikely to gain anything significant from it. Even if the IPEF does not eventually include dispute settlement provisions, and despite some of the provisions appearing to be only statements of intent and more in the nature of cooperation
We did it! The company Razvoj golf will not receive compensation from the state for the Srđ project!
1-Jul-2023     Zelena Akcija
After almost six years, the arbitration court rejected the compensation request of the investor Razvoj golf in which the company claimed compensation from the Republic of Croatia for the condoisation of Srđ in Dubrovnik.
Proposed EU-India FTA
30-Jun-2023     Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Can India protect its development objectives by signing a free trade agreement with an unequal partner with different ambitions?
Stand with the people of Honduras against corporate greed
30-Jun-2023     Public Citizen
We stand in solidarity with the people of Honduras and condemn US company Próspera's $11 billion case against the will of the people.
Trade: US trade policies a new form of “colonialism”?
29-Jun-2023     SUNS
The US policies in global trade appear somewhat like “old wine in new bottles,” with some semantic sophistry. It appears that “the more things change the more they remain the same” as regards the new forms of colonialism.
Regional NGOs warn Kenya on EU trade deal
28-Jun-2023     The Independent
Eastern and Southern African trade promotion organisations are asking Kenya to withdraw from its recent agreement with the European Union to implement the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).