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March 25, 2019
“I think that’s a particularly bad agreement and let me say why… it’s not about trade : trade barriers and tariffs between Europe and America are already come down. It’s not about property rights. […] This is not about being attractive for foreign investment. It’s about stopping the European Parliament and the US Congress from… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
January 10, 2018
Guest post by Dr. Laurens Ankersmit, ClientEarth trade lawyer On the website promoting the EU-Canada trade deal (CETA), the Canadian government proudly lists the ‘opportunities and benefits of CETA for Canada’s oil and gas exporters’. However, provisions on combatting climate change are completely absent from this ‘progressive’ agreement. It was one of the main… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Economy & Euro, Global Europe, Health & Consumers, Trade & Industry, transatlantic affairs, TTIP |
March 7, 2016
Guest blog post by Helena Peltonen. Seit vielen Jahren nehmen die Exporte aus der EU in die USA kontinuierlich zu. Dabei hat der deutsche Exportüberschuss im Jahr 2014 wieder einmal eine weltweite Spitzenposition eingenommen und wird auch für 2015 aller Voraussicht nach wieder einen neuen Rekord stellen. Dies birgt erhebliche Risiken für die Stabilität der… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
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blogactiv, Trade & Industry, Trade & Society, transatlantic affairs, TTIP |
January 27, 2016
On Wednesday 10 February the European Commission will present the so-called Energy Union ‘Winter Package’. The package will consist of five elements: Revised Security of Gas Supply Regulation Proposal for a revised decision on Intergovernmental agreements in the field of energy Strategy for Liquefied Natural Gas & Storage Strategy for heating and cooling Decision to…… » read more
August 28, 2015
Whether leaders have verbalised it as such or not, whether it is mere instinct or intuition, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a means of confronting what Sorin Moisă calls the ‘Big Contraction’. For the first time since the early modern age the Western world is contracting. It is being pushed back. For the… » read more
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CETA, EU-US, Global Europe, Sorin Moisa, TTIP , Europe |
August 25, 2015
The European Commission has broken new ground in transparency over Big Tobacco lobbying around the ongoing EU-US trade talks. Well, it admitted there had been at least one meeting with Philip Morris about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – which is progress of a sort. Responding to an information request by the Corporate… » read more
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Big Tobacco, Dalligate, John Dalli, Philip Morris, Trade & Industry, transparency, TTIP |
April 21, 2015
Kathleen Garnett This week EU and US negotiators are meeting in New York to hammer out the Regulatory Chapter of the TTIP. Alongside the proposed Chapter on Investor State Dispute Settlement, Regulatory Co-operation is the second most controversial aspect of the proposed trade agreement. From an EU perspective the Regulatory Co-operation Chapter of the TTIP,… » read more
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Global Europe, Regulatory Co-operation, Regulatory Convergence, TTIP |
April 2, 2015
“..there would also be political impacts of TTIP for Turkey because according to Kader Sevinç, Representative of the Republican People’s Party in Brussels, TTIP represents a new Western world order. From her statement, it could be deduced that through TTIP the US would be able to create the new Western axis against China economically and… » read more
