Media coverage
Ouch, it BITes! The May cover story in "Down to Earth", an environmental fortnightly magazine in India, outlines the threats investment treaties pose by highlighting the most alarming investor complaints that have been filed worldwide against states, drawing from our report "Profiting from Injustice".
French magazine Basta! was surprised by the briefing we co-published with the Council of Canadians and the Transnational Institute: Un moratoire interdit tel type d’exploitation pétrolière ou gazière, comme les gaz de schiste ? Qu’importe ! Demain, si l’accord économique en discussion entre l’Europe et le Canada est signé, des multinationales ou leurs filiales installées au Canada pourront attaquer en justice la France et obtenir d’importantes compensations financières...
The briefing "The right to say no", which we co-published with the Council of Canadians and the Transnational Institute, inspired an exclusive story in Euractiv on how European bans on hydraulic fracturing - or fracking - for shale gas could face lawsuits under a far-reaching investment clause in a draft Canada-EU Trade Agreement treaty.
In the Canadian local "The Independent", activist Marilyn Reid published a hard-hitting comment piece on the role of trade and investment agreements in today's world of corporate power. She quotes at length from our study "Profiting from Injustice" and calls it an "eye-opener".
The April EU newsletter of the Austrian Chamber of Labour contains a 5-pages summary of the results from our study on the role of the arbitration industry.
Today's Grenzecho, Belgium's daily newspaper for the German minority, includes a full page article about one of our lobbytours, covering issues from expert groups to revolving doors.
Les groupes chimiques Syngenta et Bayer se livrent à "un lobbying effréné" pour empêcher la suspension de trois pesticides soupçonnés de décimer les populations d'abeilles, accuse l'organisation Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) dans un rapport publié jeudi.
Fabrikanten van bestrijdingsmiddelen maken overuren in Brussel om een verbod tegen te houden op het gebruik van landbouwgif dat er van wordt verdacht hele bijenvolken uit te roeien. De tijd dringt, de publieke zorg neemt toe: een Britse supermarktketen wil al producten uit de schappen weren.
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