ISDS Case Map
Bilateral deal-making involving European governments.
last update: May 2012
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Europe
Bilateral deal-making involving European governments.
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The agreement on a free trade zone between Ukraine and European Union will strengthen the competitiveness of the EU itself. This opinion was expressed by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryshchenko at a joint press conference with Foreign Minister of Germany, Guido Westerwelle, during his official visit to Kyiv.
The negotiations over a free trade zone between Moldova and the EU will begin this summer and end in 2015. This is when the two sides will establish actual economic relations.
Diplomatic courtesy prompts Czech government to delay move to scrap a disadvantageous investment protection treaty with the US.
Preliminary talks on a free-trade regime are the "most difficult" part of a broad Association Agreement currently being negotiated between Georgia and the EU, possibly due to objections Tbilisi has raised against Russia joining the World Trade Organisation, Georgia's chief negotiator has said in an interview.
The Ukraine's confectionary industry, which employs 300,000 people, is reportedly under threat from FTA talks with the EU.
There were hopes that in the final stages of the EU-Ukraine FTA negotiations the EU may be ready to add a membership perspective. However, EU sources say this is not going to happen.
If it "continues to demonstrate its determination" to satisfy the required conditions, Ukraine could sign an association agreement with the European Union during the Polish EU Presidency, in the second half of this year, said a diplomatic source in Warsaw
In early 2011, the UK government plans to announce a new trade and investment policy for the next five years. To inform this policy, it gathered perspectives at the end of 2010, on “UK trade and investment performance and potential, the role of government on trade issues, the impact of global developments, both economic and otherwise, and the course of UK trade policy.”
European Commission plans to reduce member states' influence on the EU's day-to-day decision-making by reforming the so-called 'comitology' procedure were yesterday approved by MEPs, shifting power over key trade decisions like multi-million euro import tariffs away from national governments to the EU institutions.
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are to create a free trade area and single econonmic area
Referenced sites
Amfori
European business lobby group on foreign trade issues
Collectif Stop Tafta / CETA
Site internet du collectif français Stop TAFTA, CETA et autres accords de libre-échange
ESF
The European Services Forum (ESF) is a network of representatives from the European services sector. We are committed to actively promoting the interests of ...
Eurochambres
Eurochambres, a European business lobby group, webpage on FTAs
FOEE: Trade
Friends of the Earth Europe's special web section on trade deals
Handelskampanjen
The Norwegian Trade Campaign will oppose the current, neo-liberal trade policies and fundamentally reform the trade policy system.
Pour
POUR est un collectif citoyen qui met à votre disposition des analyses et prises de position d’experts, de philosophes, de sociologues, de juristes, d’économ...
Seattle to Brussels Network
The S2B network was formed in the aftermath of the WTO's 1999 Seattle Ministerial to challenge the corporate-driven agenda of the European Union and other Eu...
Trade Leaks
Greenpeace's leaked documents underline the strong objections civil society and millions of people around the world have voiced.
