Video: Transatlantic Free-Trade Agreement (TAFTA/TTIP)
Does the investor state settlement dispute mechanism (ISDS) in TTIP entail a global governance by and for multinational corporations? Natacha Cingotti is a campaigner in the environmental NGO "Friends of the Earth Europe" in Brussels. Lori Wallach is the director…
Pan-EU civil society coalition rejects US-EU free trade deal process
With the fifth round of EU-US negotiations under way this week in Arlington/USA, more than 120 organisations have rejected the corporate agenda in the TTIP negotiations in a joint statement released today. People, environment and democracy before profit and corporate…
Civil society call for full transparency in EU-US trade negotiations
More than 250 civil society organisations and networks have today called on the European Commission to open up the EU-US trade negotiations for public scrutiny. The fifth round of negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) begins today…
New leak:
EU presses US to expand fracking
According to a new secret negotiation text obtained by the Huffington Post, the European Union is using TTIP to press the Obama administration to expand fracking, offshore oil drilling and natural gas exploration. See the full article: , the and…
Proposed plans for US-EU trade deal would weaken health, consumer, worker and environmental protections
Press release - According to a leaked position paper and statements by trade officials, current proposals being floated as part of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations would grant foreign governments and corporations an increased opportunity to influence…
Why is TTIP more than a trade agreement?
EU and US are currently negotiating a trade and investment agreement. How will this deal affect people from both regions and around the world? See reflections from EU and US activists who gathered to discuss about the impacts and possible…
Suing the state: hidden rules within the EU-US trade deal
This film presents some of the dangers of the investor rights within the proposed EU-US trade deal (TTIP). We need to stop this corporate attack on our democracy and policies to protect the public interest.
How the EU-US trade agreement risks expanding fracking
A briefing that explores how a trade agreement currently being negotiated between the US and the EU could open the way to multi-billion euro lawsuits from companies wanting to expand fracking for shale gas and oil.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): A charter for deregulation, an attack on jobs, an end to democracy
A book b John Hilary. Ed. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Büro Brüssel, 2014. Available in the following languages: German, English, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive free trade and investment…
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).…
Open Letter of civil society against Investor Privileges in TTIP
As a new round of negotiations starts in Wasshington, DC, over 100 civil society groups and social movements from Europe and the USA have signed on an open letter that was sent to the chief negotiators of the Transatlantic Trade…