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Free trade agreements will do little to alleviate the region’s economic and demographic crisis
Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia have one thing in common: people, especially the young people, just want to leave. Unlike what is often portrayed in our media, the three countries of the Maghreb are (...)
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against France’s bid to criminalize the call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel. The ruling was a victory for Palestine solidarity activists — and the first setback for Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to smear antiracists as the “new (...)
The free trade agreement between the European Union and Japan, JEFTA [ 1 ] , is due to be ratified by the European Parliament in the week of 10 December. After negotiating the JEFTA in utter opacity, the European Commission and the Member States under the influence of neoliberal and business (...)
Intervention at the open space workshop on “Making GSP+ Work: Towards a Human Rights Compliant Philippines”, Asia Europe People’s Forum 12, September 29-October 1 2018, Ghent, Belgium.
The open space workshop on “Making GSP+ Work: Towards a Human Rights Compliant Philippines”, Asia Europe People’s (...)
During the 12th Asia-Europe People’s Forum in Gent held before the 12th ASEM Summit, 18-19 October, Brussels, Belgium, Thai group mobilzed 28 September 2018 to request that the EU and Member States do not abandon the recognition of the illegitimacy of General Prayuth’s attempt to represent the (...)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to Israel last week came at a moment in which the latter’s slide into legally-sanctioned racism has taken on particularly stark colors. In the final meeting of its summer session, the Israeli Knesset enacted the “Nation-State Law,” formally enshrining (...)
Today, Both ENDS sent a letter, signed by various civil society organisations, to Sigrid Kaag (Dutch Minister of Aid & Trade) reminding her of an important deadline and to urge her to terminate the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) that exists between the Netherlands and Burkina Faso. The (...)
Following calls for openness and public participation, the European Commission now advertises its trade negotiations as transparent and inclusive. But crucial information about EU trade deals are still kept from citizens. Even member state governments regularly complain about being left in the (...)
The European Commission will abide by the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which concluded, on 27 February, that the fisheries agreement between the EU and Morocco is not applicable to Western Sahara, said the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security (...)
Indonesian and European CSOs have proposed a progressive framework for the proposed new trade agreement
FULL STATEMENT
I. Introduction
This statement has been developed jointly by Indonesian and European civil society organisations. We believe that an EU-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic (...)
Behind the fine words about cooperation and strengthening partner country capacity, EU police training and equipment aid in North Africa and the Sahel is strengthening repression. The EU offers support to national police forces, on condition that they reduce undocumented migration towards (...)
What is the investment agenda driving the negotiations for an Indonesia-Europe Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)? Can the alternative investment protection frameworks proposed by Indonesia and other countries promote more equitable and sustainable development?
Download The EU Indonesia CEPA negotiations (...)
New EU Trade deals would harm consumers, the environment and demorcracy
The European Union is currently negotiating a series of new free trade agreements that would have a negative impact on consumer rights, environmental standards and democratic principles. These are the findings of a report (...)
EU-PHILIPPINES FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: A PRO-CORPORATE TRADE DEAL THAT WILL THREATEN PEOPLES RIGHTS AND WELFARE
Workers from SENTRO and Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) picketed the DTI Office in Cebu Friday as the second round of negotiations for EU-Philippines free trade agreement were winding (...)
Governments and corporate lobbyists keep inventing new ways to embed privatisation and circumvent democracy – in this case, the Canada-EU deal
Is it over? Can it be true? If so, it’s a victory for a campaign that once looked hopeless, pitched against a fortress of political, corporate and (...)
Last days of CETA – Join us for an Autumn of Action!
We are civil society, grassroots organizations, labour movements, farmer, environmental and social groups from all across Europe, Canada and the U.S. We want to put an end to secretive trade deals like CETA and TTIP, and any that follow; and (...)
While debate rages in Europe about CETA, the Canada-EU trade agreement, a new report warns that the deal could lower food safety standards.Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, released today by the Council of Canadians and numerous European partners, outlines the regulatory differences (...)
UK Labour leader wants to scrap trade deal, refuses to do TV Brexit debate.
LONDON — Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn made a major intervention in the campaign against Brexit Thursday by pledging to scrap the EU’s controversial free trade deal with the United States.
In a speech in central London, (...)
PRESS RELEASE: ‘Responsible Mining’ threatened by EU-Philippines FTA
Amsterdam/Manila, May 24 2016 – As the first round of negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and the EU commences in Brussels, a new report warns that it endangers effective regulation of the mining (...)
In the past few years, particularly after the 2007-8 world food price crisis, there has been a lot of attention to the global expansion of large-scale acquisitions of farmland, or what is usually referred to as land grabs.
The investors range from transnational corporations and high-class (...)
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