1 Million Signatures against TTIP and CETA
JUNCKER RECEIVES BIRTHDAY SURPRISE: ONE MILLION SIGNATURES OPPOSING TTIP AND CETA Press release, 09/12/2014 Self-organised European Citizens’ Initiative asks Commission to blow out the candles on trade deals The Stop TTIP coalition, consisting of more than 320 civil society organisations…
Trading away Democracy
How CETA’s Investor Protection Rules threaten the Public Good in Canada and the EU The Investor-state dispute settlement mechanism in the far-reaching economic integration agreement between Canada and the European Union prevents governments from acting in the public interest. Download…
People and the planet before profit
Call for European decentralised multi-sectoral day of action against TTIP, CETA and corporate free trade agenda on 11 October 2014. * Groups are welcome to amend this call, change it and translate it according to their needs ** Groups are…
S2B refutes European Commission’s defense of controversial investor-to-state dispute settlement
The European Commission recently issued two papers to address growing concerns among civil society and the wider general public over inclusion of the increasingly controversial investor-state dispute settlement mechanism (ISDS) in the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Protection agreement (TTIP).…
The right to say no
EU-Canada trade agreement threatens fracking bans As European Union (EU) member states consider the implications of environmentally risky shale gas development (fracking), negotiations are underway for a controversial EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) which would grant investors the…
Transatlantic statement opposing excessive investor rights in CETA
Ahead of a two-day meeting in Ottawa between European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and Canadian International Trade Minister Ed Fast, where the two hoped to move forward the negotiations of the Comprehensive Economic a´nd Trade Agreement (CETA), a number…
European and Canadian Workers United in their Concerns about the EU-Canada Trade negotiations
In a joint statement released on 24 January 2013, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) have taken a common position on the on-going negotiations of a bilateral Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between…
EU’s note is a lobby document and not objective or complete
Seattle to Brussesls analysis: The European Commission’s note on “Investment Provisions in the EU-Canada free trade agreement ’’ is a lobby document, not an objective and complete presentation on the issue At the end of 2013 the European Commission produced…
Joint Declaration against CETA
After the mobilisations in Ottawa, parallel to the 9th round of negotiations between the EU and Canada of a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), social movements from Canda and Europe launched a joint statement: “Corporations must not make the…