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Free flight for EU leaders not needed, German official says
7-Oct-2014 CBC
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s offer of a free ride home for visiting European leaders — at a cost of more than $300,000 — is raising eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic.
Can China and Russia squeeze Washington out of Eurasia?
7-Oct-2014 The Nation
There could soon be a trade alliance between Beijing, Moscow and Berlin—but you wouldn’t know it from the triumphal tone in Washington.
War, neoliberal fundamentalism and the plundering of national economies
7-Oct-2014 Global Research
The real threats to ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’, ‘decency’ and ‘fairness’ do not lie in Syria or Iraq. The destruction of national sovereignty, democracy, freedom, decency, quality of life and livelihoods is being carried out by corporate vultures under the guise of the secular theology of neoliberalism, not least in practice via free trade and investor rights agreements.
The trade clause that overrules governments
6-Oct-2014 Washington Post
The Obama administration’s insistence on ISDS may please Wall Street, but it threatens to undermine some of the president’s landmark achievements in curbing pollution and fighting global warming.
TUC 2014 Congress resolution on TTIP
6-Oct-2014 TUC
Resolution of the Trades Union Congree of the UK
Appointment of first EU envoy to ASEAN will boost ties
6-Oct-2014 Jakarta Post
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht has said the EU-ASEAN free trade agreement negotiations could be revived once the ASEAN Economic Community is in place (end 2015).
TPP ministerial talks set for Oct. 25-27 in Sydney
6-Oct-2014 Jiji Press
The 12 countries aim to break the impasse for an envisioned broad accord in November.
S. Korea’s biz community sets up consultative group on China FTA
6-Oct-2014 Yonhap
South Korea’s business community has set up a consultative group aimed at reflecting their interests in ongoing free trade agreement (FTA) talks with China.
Bar set low for a ‘do no harm’ China-Australia FTA
6-Oct-2014 The Conversation
The excitement behind the likely conclusion of an agreement — the speculation is a grand signing will take place in mid-November when President Xi Jinping will be in Brisbane for the G20 meeting — will exceed the actual significance of such an agreement.
Make no mistake, the TTIP is a move in the wrong direction
6-Oct-2014 The Conversation
While it would be wrong to say that the TTIP will lead to the wholesale privatisation of public services, it would potentially constrain governments’ ability to reverse past policy decisions to open up public services to competition as this would become a treaty-based commitment.
TAFTA: the myth of job creation
5-Oct-2014 Marianne
While the seventh round of negotiations on the transatlantic treaty commenced on Monday near Washington, Marianne interviewed the economist Thomas Porcher on job creation.
The threat of CETA: trade, investment and workers’ rights
5-Oct-2014 Newfoundland and Labrador Independent
The CETA will give private European companies the right to bid on Canadian government tenders for goods and services — among them schools, hospitals, airports, public transit, ports, and hydro projects — down to the municipal level.
EU hopes EPA with Kenya to be concluded by end of October
5-Oct-2014 Xinhua
"The EAC and the EU will set a new date to finalize the trade talks," an EU official told a news conference in Nairobi on Friday.
Pacific trade pact hindered by secrecy in US-Japan talks: Chile
4-Oct-2014 Reuters
Secrecy about trade negotiations between the United States and Japan is hampering progress on a broader Pacific trade pact, a senior Chilean official said on Friday.
EU official says no deal so far on export trade talks
4-Oct-2014 The Star
East African states are yet to strike a trade deal on the Economic Partnership Agreement after the European Union said the proposals made by the council of ministers were inadequate.
GCC builds up its Asia strategy
4-Oct-2014 Gulf News
MoU with South Korea can be leveraged into something significant, including a free trade agreement
TTIP chief negotiators address regulatory concerns
4-Oct-2014 Chemical Watch
When it comes to chemical regulations, there will be no harmonisation, just cooperation, the TTIP negotiators say.
US trade deal won’t change rules on ’toxic’ chemicals, EU says
4-Oct-2014 Reuters
The European Union is seeking to contain a new complaint that a trade deal with the United States would undermine Europe’s protection against dangerous chemicals, eager to avoid another front of resistance to the world’s biggest trade accord.
TTIP: the Al Jazeera debate
3-Oct-2014 War on Want
To mark this week’s seventh round of negotiations towards TTIP, the EU-US treaty that threatens to undermine our democracy, our jobs and our public services for ever, Al Jazeera hosted a live debate in its Washington DC studio to explore exactly what is at risk.
Guide to the world’s biggest free trade deal – the economic partnership agreements between the EU and Africa
3-Oct-2014 ECDPM
ECDPM has released a ‘Frequently asked questions’ guide to the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the EU and Africa.