French Trade secretary Fekl called today for the end of the current negotiations on TTIP, a trade agreement between the EU and the US. His declaration followed a statement of German Economic minister Gabriel that the TTIP negotiations have failed. TTIP will undermine environmental, social, health standards in Europe and gives unacceptable rights to US …
Dangerous CETA deal must be rejected
Promises from the EU and Canada that they have improved the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) are fooling no-one, according to Friends of the Earth Europe. It remains a dangerous agreement that gives special rights to corporations and threatens democracy and the environment, says the group. EU Trade Commissioner, Malmström, and Canada’s Minister for …
Trading away democracy: how CETA’s investor protection rules threaten the public good in Canada and the EU
On September 26, 2014, Canada and the European Union (EU) announced the conclusion of a far-reaching economic integration agreement, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The agreement includes an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism, which could unleash a corporate litigation boom against Canada, the EU and individual EU member states, and could dangerously thwart …
100+ organisations call on MEPs to vote against EU-Chile deal
In January 2024, Members of the European Parliament will have to decide whether to approve an exploitative green-washed trade agreement with Chile. The agreement, which has been in place since 2003, is to be expanded, and the addition of a raw materials chapter, which is intended to secure the EU access to raw materials regardless …
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Breaking: Civil society denounce leaked joint instrument on EU-Mercosur deal as blatant greenwashing
Documents leaked from a confidential source reveal that the EU-Mercosur deal’s proposed annex, supposedly intended to safeguard the environment, climate and human rights, does nothing to achieve this. The annex exposes a dangerous gap between the European Union’s climate goals and commitments to protect human rights, and what it actually endorses behind closed doors.
Open letter: Stop financing industrial agriculture
Friends of the Earth Europe joined over 130 civil society organisations in sending a letter to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, to demand that the IFC stop using public taxpayer dollars to finance exploitative industrial agriculture.