Trade

How is big business using the EU's trade and investment agreements to sideline people, planet and democracy?

EU's TTIP position: regulations to be made for and by big business

11.04.2016

Despite growing concerns among the European public, the new EU proposal on regulatory cooperation in TTIP does nothing to address the upcoming democratic threats.

A Toxic Affair: How the chemical lobby blocked action on hormone disrupting chemicals

19.05.2015

An investigation led by research and campaign group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and journalist Stéphane Horel exposes corporate lobby groups mobilising to stop the EU taking action on hormone (endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The report sheds light on how corporations and their lobby groups have used numerous tactics from the corporate lobbying playbook: scaremongering, evidence-discrediting, and delaying tactics as well as the ongoing TTIP negotiations as a leverage.

EU trade deals

TTIP: "Regulatory Cooperation" a threat to democracy

21.03.2016

Letter from to Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström on a new TTIP proposal on "regulatory cooperation".

Investor privileges (ISDS)

Statement against Investor Protection in TTIP, CETA, and other trade deals

22.02.2016

Ahead of the 12th round of TTIP negotiations, 280 civil society groups from across Europe have called on the EU and the US to eliminate excessive investor rights from the TTIP, CETA and all other trade deals.

Investor privileges (ISDS)

Oil corporations vs climate

22.02.2016

Canadian company TransCanada wants to sue the US for over US$15 billion in compensation - because President Obama rejected the contested Keystone XL oil pipeline. Another warning sign for extreme corporate rights in EU trade deals such as TTIP and CETA.

Regulatory cooperation

How the European Commission is doing the job of big business

19.02.2016

Regulatory cooperation in TTIP and Better Regulation, two processes for big business, which will weaken, delay or abolish standards.

Investor privileges (ISDS)

L'ISDS mort-vivant

05.09.2016

Ces deux dernières années, une controverse citoyenne inégalée en Europe, sur un élément peu connu des accords internationaux de commerce, a retenu l'attention des citoyens, des décideurs politiques et des médias. Celle-ci concerne le dénommé système de règlement des différends investisseur-Etat, le RDIE ou l'ISDS en anglais.

EU trade deals

Le dangereux duo réglementaire

18.01.2016

Comment la coopération réglementaire transatlantique sous le TTIP permettra à l'administration et aux grandes entreprises d'attaquer l'intérêt public.

Video: TTIP - how big polluters hijack the world's climate future

11.12.2015

Watch how corporations are using TTIP to promote their climate-trashing agenda.

Trade trumps climate

04.12.2015

Leaked document shows EU ditch climate measures if they sideline trade orthodoxy.

Regulatory cooperation

Cooperating to deregulate

17.11.2015

Two separate developments on European regulatory issues – regulatory cooperation under TTIP and the "Better Regulation Agenda" – are set to introduce a new style of rulemaking in the EU, one that would introduce severe obstacles to anything that would against the interests of multinational corporations in the EU and the US.

Ces mains sales qui demandent des accords toxiques

23.10.2015

Les mêmes grandes entreprises à la manœuvre dans le tafta/ ttip et la COP21.

Trade

EU's TTIP position: regulations to be made for and by big business

A Toxic Affair: How the chemical lobby blocked action on hormone disrupting chemicals

TTIP: "Regulatory Cooperation" a threat to democracy

Statement against Investor Protection in TTIP, CETA, and other trade deals

Oil corporations vs climate

How the European Commission is doing the job of big business

L'ISDS mort-vivant

Le dangereux duo réglementaire

Video: TTIP - how big polluters hijack the world's climate future

Trade trumps climate

Cooperating to deregulate

Ces mains sales qui demandent des accords toxiques

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