Tag: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
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TiSA leaks: What future for the world’s largest trade agreements?
Today Greenpeace Netherlands released new documents from the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), a massive trade deal now being negotiated by 23 member countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), including the EU, the US, Japan, Costa Rica, and Colombia.…
20 September 2016
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European Parliament adopts a mixed-bag resolution on TTIP
On Wednesday the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This resolution clarifies the Parliament’s position on the proposed EU.-US trade deal, providing guidance to the European Commission on how to continue the negotiations. …
10 July 2015
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EU Decision on TTIP Threatens ‘Corporate Takeover’ of the Internet, Risks Users’ Rights
Today the European Parliament’s trade committee is expected to decide whether to give the European Commision carte blanche to continue negotiations on a mechanism that would make it easier for foreign corporations to influence legislation in Europe. …
29 June 2015
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Why you should care about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Today, as the European Parliament’s trade committee considers amendments to its position on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Access has published a brief to help people on both sides of the Atlantic understand what’s at stake in the negotiations. …
28 June 2015
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Access Spotlights the Hot Digital Rights Issues of 2015
2014 was a major year for digital rights, with some significant victories and some worrying setbacks. 2015 is poised to be no different. This year, we asked Access staff to spotlight the big digital freedom issues for 2015. And we’ll need your help in the fight for digital freedom around the globe. …
9 January 2015
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Big brother’s little helper inside the European Commission
Through a Freedom of Information Request, Access has acquired an important document that sheds light on the Home Affairs department of the European Commission’s relationship with the U.S. administration on the EU Data Protection Reform effort.…
27 September 2014
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EU’s growing resistance to include ISDS in trade deals
On Friday, July 25th, the German Government raised concerns over the current chapter on the controversial Investor-State Dispute Settlement (“ISDS”) included in the trade agreement between the EU and Canada – known as CETA – currently being discussed on both sides of the Atlantic. This announcement is indicative of the growing resistance to ISDS in trade agreements taking place in the European Union at the moment.
…5 August 2014
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TTIP negotiations: transparently opaque
On July 14th, the European Union and the United States kicked off the sixth round of negotiations of what could be the world’s largest trade pact — the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The negotiations, which have been taking place for more than a year, are about opening markets on both sides of the Atlantic for exchange in goods, services, investment, and public procurement.…
23 July 2014
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The European Commission wants your views on ISDS
Earlier this week, European Digital Rights (EDRi), with the help of Access, Bits of Freedom, and Vrijschrift, published a citizens answering guide to the public consultation on the Investor-State Dispute Settlement launched by the European Commission in March and open for comment until July 6. …
1 July 2014
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TTIP: The Lobby plague is coming
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a free trade agreement currently being negotiated between the United States and the European Union, aiming at increasing trade and (dangerously) seeking “regulatory coherence.” If adopted, TTIP would become the world’s largest free trade and investment agreement, opening both markets for exchange in goods, services, investment, and public procurement.…
26 May 2014
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ISDS: The trojan horse clause giving more power to companies
As two major international trade agreements are being negotiated, an increasingly contentious debate is taking place on the need to include an Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism. This mechanism enables companies to sue governments and challenge legislation in arbitration courts (outside of domestic judicial systems. …
20 May 2014
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LIBE Series 14 and 15: Conclusions of the European Parliament on mass-surveillance programs – Part 2
In the 14th and 15th hearings held by the committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), Commissioner Viviane Reding, the Brazilian Parliamentary Inquiry Committee and Glenn Greenwald delivered important testimonies before the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). MEPs then presented the second part of their conclusions and working documents, the result of the thirteen inquiry meetings on the mass-surveillance programmes which aim to catalogue their recommendations aimed at preventing further violations of fundamental rights.
…20 December 2013
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Keeping IP out of TAFTA
On the heels of the announcement of the newly kicked off EU-US Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA), also known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Access joined a group of roughly 35 internet freedom organizations, public health groups, activists, and other public interest leaders to urge both the US and the EU to keep copyright, patents, trademarks and geographical indications — so-called “intellectual property” — out of the negotiations.…
18 March 2013